Louis-Gaston de Sonis

Louis-Gaston de Sonis (1825 - 1887) is an officer of the French Army which is particularly illustrated at the time of the Bataille of Loigny during the war of 1870, where it loses a leg.

Born the August 25th 1825 with the Guadeloupe where his/her father was officer, it returns in metropolis to the Military academy to make its studies there. It integrates the Collège of Juilly then the military special École of Saint-Cyr military school, at the exit of which it joined the School of application of Cavalry to Saumur. It leaves second lieutenant and joined there the 5th regiment of hussards based in Castres. Freemason, it is initiated by the maconnic Cabin of the Great East of France, Perseverance with the East of Saumur and as of its arrival is affiliated in very republican Loge the Universal Harmony with Castrate that it will attend assiduously between 1848 and 1849, until the departure of the regiment. Replacing the 1st supervisor regularly, he will be elected 2nd Master of the Ceremonies the 16th day of the 10th month of 5848 (12/16/1848). Of its 9 months passage in Freemasonry, it preserved a bad memory and will disadvise later with its sons adhering to it. He marries on April 18th, 1849 with Castres Jenni, Antoinette, Anais Roger, born in Saissac (Aude) on July 29th, 1831, girl of Jean, Louis, Prosper Roger, lawyer and notary with Castres and of Francoise, Antoinette, Aglaée Meyran which will give him 12 children: Marie (1850), Gaston (1851), Henri (1853), Albert (1854), Marie-Therese (1857), Madeleine (1858), Marthe-Carmel (1861), Joseph (1863), Jean-Marie 1864), Germaine (1866), François (1867), Philomène (1869). She will survive to him 40 years and will die in Chartres on January 21st, 1927. After Paris, then Limoges, it is named Capitaine in 1854 and leaves Limoges for the Algérie. It establishes with Algiers and the night worship of the Blessed Sacrament and it takes part in the forwarding of the Kabylie at the time of the countryside of 1857. After the attack of El-Amiz and the tender of the Blessed-Raten, it leads a mass of thanksgiving. Louis-Gaston de Sonis is then designated for the countryside of Italy from May to August 1859. It orders the load of its squadron at the time of the Bataille of Solférino. It goes then voluntary for the Campagne of Morocco in October 1859 during which its principal enemy will be the Choléra. In 1860, Sonis is named higher commander of the circle of Tenez, then of Laghouat and finally Saïda. In 1865 it takes part in the combat of Metlili and leads a forwarding in the desert in 1866. In 1869, it directs the combat of Ain-Madhi. Of return in France, it is named general ordering the 17th Army corps of the army of the Loire. It is with Rennes (1871-1874), Saint-Servan (1874-1880), Chateauroux and Limoges (1880-1883). Sonis is made large officer in spite of him, he wants to withdraw public life and soldier but the general De Gallifet refuses his resignation. The four last years of its life will occur to Paris in a very religious atmosphere.

This very pious officer is also known to have fought in 1870 with the head of the pontifical zouaves and the Volunteers of the West under the standard of the Sacré-coeur of Jesus. Seriously wounded at the time of the combat, it spent the night (- 20°) on the field of Bataille of Loigny to reassure the wounded soldiers them also goshawks of him. One cut down the leg to him the following day by this disastrous December 2nd, 1870.

In 2002, with the ICES, a Cornice (military) bearing the name of " General of Sonis" was created in order to prepare the students eager to present the contest of the military special École of Saint-Cyr military school.

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