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Show Trocha. General Jules Trochu, who has been for some time military commander at Paris, is now at the head of military affairs, and may become the head of the. new Government. He has the confidence of the Republicans and moderates, aud has long been recorded outside of Imperial circles as the ablest military mind iu France. He is only 55 years of ase, and in the full vigor of liis mental aud physical fac-.t ties. We repeat the leading facts of h:- former for-mer career as published a short time since. He was Lieut, in 1 S4i , Lapt. in I S43, then staff officer with Marshal Bugeaud in Algeria, Major, it: I "'), Lieutenant Colonel in 1S53, Geic-r " o( Brigade in 154, and General of Division Div-ision in 1864. In the Crimea he served as Chief of the General Staff, and is credited by Kinglake, the historian, as the master mind of the French army in that war. Iu 10G he was charged with the preparation of a plan to reorganize re-organize the French army, the Emperor discerning through the smoke of Sa-dowa Sa-dowa that a new military era had set in. and in ISoC issued the result of his I 'abors in a famous essay that has run throjgh ten editions. Since the issue , of his pamphlet V Armee Franc lisc, his chief study has been the Rhine border, the imminence of a war with Prussia being ever before him. After the French defeat at Hagc-mm, ' when Marshal Bazaine was made Cotu-mander-in Chief of the armies in the field, General Trochu was appointed Major-General of the army, vice Le-breuf, Le-breuf, tho Emperor's favorite, who proved n signal failure. He has since been the chief administrative officer of the French military affairs, has dis: played great energy and skill iu preparing pre-paring Paris for defense, and has been aole to repress disorder and insurrection insurrec-tion without an appeal to force, a resort which he openly deprecated in words which bespoke equal wisdom and tact. ,S'. F. Bulletin. |
