Adrien Rieunier

Henri (Adrien, Barthelemy, Louis) Rieunier is a French admiral and politician born on March 6th, 1833 with Manor house-Sarrazin (Tarn-et-Garonne) and deceased on July 10th, 1918 with Albi (Tarn)

Vice-admiral, Grand Cross of the Legion of honor, military medal-holder, many French and foreign decorations (four Grand Crosses). A pioneer of China and Japan at the time where the Empire of the Rising sun in the world occident opened. Sailor and navigator except par, Large traveller, Polyglot, Diplomat, Ambassador, Explorer of Asia. In 1876, he is the first French navigator, commander on board " Laclocheterie" , to revisit the English Channel of Tartarie after the crews of Lapérouse at the XVIIIème century. commander of many buildings. Prefect and commander-in-chief of Rochefort then of Toulon. Named in 1885 assistant of the commander-in-chief of the squadron of the Far East on board " Turenne" it takes shortly after the death of the famous Courbet vice-admiral the functions of commander-in-chief of the naval division of the China Seas and Japan. From 1890 to 1892, Commander-in-chief of the squadron of the Western Mediterranean and of Raising, Commander-in-chief the 1st naval army on board " Formidable". President of the committee of the general inspectors of the Navy (1893-1898). President (under Minister) then vice-president of the superior council of the Navy.

Hierarchically superior of Julien Viaud (Pierre Parcelled out): in Saigon (1885), Nagasaki (1886), Rochefort (1889), Formidable (1891). Representative of France and the President of the Republic Sadi Carnot to the festivals of Genoa, in September 1892, for the commemoration of IVe centenary of discovered of America by Christophe Colomb. Reception in Toulon and Paris as Minister for the Navy of the officers of the Russian imperial squadron of the Mediterranean of the admiral Avellan and the large duke Alexis, commander-in-chief of the fleet of Russia, brother of the Tsar Alexandre III (October 1893, Franco-Russian alliance), etc

Friend of the large scholar, South Vietnamese, P.J.B Truong-Vinh-Ky (1837-1898), etc. Henri Rieunier takes part in the Crimean War of 1853 to 1856: Battle of Alma, sits of Sébastopol in entirety (it is decorated on the battle field with the Legion with honor at 22 years), taken Fort of Kinburn. It attends all the operations of the 1st countryside of China in 1857 - 1858 (catch of Canton, forts of Your-Kou to the mouth of Peï-Ho, Traité of Tien-tsin, etc). There remain seven consecutive years in Cochinchine, usually speak Vietnamese, take part in the catch of Tourane, Saigon and its heroic defense, with the lines of Ki-Hoa, of the citadel of Mytho, citadel Vinh-length, etc He is close to the admirals: Rigault de Genouilly, Page, and will be aide-de-camp and director of the indigenous businesses of Charner, Bonard and of Grandière, it attends with the treaty of Saigon on June 5th, 1862 and its ratification at the court of Hooted on a gold table (emperor You Duke), on April 16th, 1863. He visits in September 1862 with the admiral Bonard " Oudong" (then, the capital of Kampuchea, meets with king Norodom), ruins of Angkor whose monuments were recognized in 1860 by the naturalist Henri Mouhot. Control, in July 1863, by the sign of vessel Henri (Adrien, Barthelemy, Louis) Rieunier of the extraordinary embassy year - 3 mandarins and a succession of 63 people - great Mandarin Phan-Thanh-Giang of the court of Hooted (emperor You Duke), on board European, at Napoleon III with Tileries to try a renegotiation of the treaty of Saigon - Suez Canal was not yet dug -, etc Henri Rieunier with the Businesses of Mexico of 1865 to 1867 like second on board " Thémis". Ordering " Argus" from 1868 to 1870, flying school of the west coasts of France, It is in Henri Rieunier that one owes the designation of the site of the Port of Pallice at the La Rochelle in 1868, this idea was taken again after 1870. Diplomatic mission in the Far East, China - Japan of 1875 to 1878 as commander of the " Laclocheterie". It arrives at Japan before Emile Guimet. Its visit with last indigenous king Sho-Taï in the archipelago of Ryükü (Okinawa) is historical. He escorts the flotilla of the Mikado de Yokohama in Kobe and meets the dignitaries of Japan, then of China. He takes part in the occupation of Tunisia as commander aboard armoured corvette " Jeanne d' Arc" from 1880 to 1881, etc Henri Rieunier took part in all the campaigns of the Second Empire (except the countryside of Italy), two wounds. With the head office of Paris, Henri Rieunier is promoted captain, at 38 years, after only eleven months of rank of commander for his heroic control, which in annals of the navy is certainly single.

Minister for the Marine from January 11th to December 3rd, 1893 in the governments Alexandre Ribot (2) and Charles Dupuy (1).

Appointed Charente-Lower (1898-1902).

The back grandson of the admiral Henri Rieunier, Herve Bernard writer and historian wrote two new works in quadrichromy (not marketed), entitled: " Admiral Henri Rieunier, Minister for the Navy - Extraordinary Life of a Large Sailor, 1833/1918" of 618 pages and " Albi, Fatherland of Rieunier - a Man Illustrates Française" Marine; of 718 pages. Herve Bernard is the signatory of a article published in the Review of the Friends of the Museum of the Navy in Paris, Neptunia N°235 of the month of September 2004 entitled: " Life of a Large Sailor. The Vice-admiral Henri Rieunier (1833-1918) ".

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