Charles Cousin-Montauban

Charles Guillaume Marie Cousin-Montauban, count de Palikao Cousin-Montauban , count of Palikao (June 24th 1796 - 1878), was a Général and Statesman French.

Major to the spahis on September 4th, 1830, lieutenant-colonel on May 7th, 1843, colonel with the 2nd hunters on August 2nd, 1845, it is between his hands that Abd-el-Kader made its tender it December 21st, 1847: Moricière arrived only a few moments afterwards.

He became brigadier general on September 21st, 1851 and ordered the subdivision of Tlemcen. In the last days of November 1853, it went with some troops of reserve to Ain Ben-Khelil where it obtained the tender of Hammian, Maïas and other tribes which had followed two risen chiefs, El-Gourari and Sidi-Ben-Tayeb. Major general since December 28th, 1855, it ordered the division of Constantine. Recalled in France, it was put at the head of the 2nd military division whose seat was in Limoges. In 1860, the Montauban general was invested command as a chief of the French troops of the forwarding of China, undertaken jointly with England since 1857.

The title of count de Palikao to him was conferred on January 22nd, 1862. During the Franco-German War of 1870, the empress regent charged it on August 9th, 1870 with the constitution of a new cabinet, of which it took the direction with the wallet of the ministry for the war. This cabinet lived only three weeks. The demolished of Sedan and the capitulation of Napoleon III involve the fall of the Second Empire, and the proclamation of the République on September 4th, 1870.

Sources

the Gold book of Algeria, Narcisse Falcon, Challamel and Co Editors Algerian and Colonial Bookstore 1889.

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