Admiral Admiral is one of the highest ranks in many navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force. Admiral is ranked above vice admiral and below admiral of ...

Constant Louis Jean Benjamin Jaurès (3 February 1823 – 13 March 1889) was a

French Navy The French Navy (, , ), informally (, ), is the Navy, maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of History of France, France. It is among the largest and most powerful List of navies, naval forces i ...

officer and politician. Born in

Albi Albi (; ) is a commune in France, commune in southern France. It is the prefecture of the Tarn (department), Tarn Departments of France, department, on the river Tarn (river), Tarn, 85 km northeast of Toulouse. Its inhabitants are called ...

, Tarn, he was a senator for life and active in Japan during the 1863 Shimonoseki campaign and the

Boshin War The , sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and a coalition seeking to seize political power in the name of the Impe ...

. He became Minister of the Navy and Colonies on 22 February 1889, in the government of Pierre Tirard. The famous French politician,

Jean Jaurès Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 185931 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (; ), was a French socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became a social democrat and one of the first possibi ...

, was his nephew.

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1823 births 1889 deaths People from Albi French republicans Ministers of marine and the colonies Members of the National Assembly (1871) Members of Parliament for Tarn French life senators Ambassadors of France to the Russian Empire Ambassadors of France to Spain 19th-century diplomats French Navy admirals French military personnel of the Crimean War French military personnel of the Second Opium War French military personnel of the Second French intervention in Mexico French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour Order of Leopold (Belgium) {{France-politician-stub

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