Pierre Léonce Détroyat

He was born at Bayonne (Basses-Pyrénées). He studied at the École Navale, took part in the Crimean War, and in the subsequent expedition to China, and accompanied Archduke Maximilian to Mexico as Under-Secretary of State for Naval Affairs and chief of the military cabinet. During the Franco-Prussian War, he was for a time in command of the camp at La Rochelle. From 1866 to 1869, he was a member of the staff of La Liberté, which he edited from 1869 to 1876. He subsequently founded Le Bon Sens, and L'Estafette, the latter a conservative and Bonapartist journal. In 1885-86 he edited the Constitutionnel.

His works include the following titles:

• La cour de Rome et l'empereur Maximilien (Paris, 1867)
• Du recrutement, de l'organisation et de l'instruction de l'armée française (On recruiting, organization and instruction for the French army, 1871)
• Le sénat et le scrutin de liste (1881)
• Nos possessions françaises en Indo-Chine (Our French possessions in Indo-China, 1887)
• Les chemins de fer en Amérique (Railroads in America, 1886)

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Detroyat, Pierre Léonce" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.

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