CHANGARNIER, NICOLAS ANNE THEODULE French general, was born at Autun on April 26, 1793. Educated at St. Cyr, he served for a short time in the bodyguard of Louis XVIII., and entered the line as a lieutenant in January 1815. In 1830 he entered the Royal Guard and was sent to Algeria, where he served with great distinction until 1848, and had just succeeded Gen. Cavaignac as governor of the colony when he was recalled to command the National Guard. An avowed enemy of republican institutions, he at first upheld the power of the president ; but in January 1851 he opposed Louis Napoleon's policy, was deprived of his double command, and at the coup d'etat in December was arrested and sent to Mazas until his banishment from France by the decree of Jan. 9, 1852. He re turned to France after the general amnesty. In 1870 he was pres ent with the headquarters, and afterwards with Bazaine in Metz. He was employed on an unsuccessful mission to Prince Frederick Charles, commanding the German army which besieged Metz, and on the capitulation became a prisoner of war. At the armistice he returned to Paris, and in 1871 was elected to the National Assem bly by four departments, and sat for the Somme. He took an ac tive part in politics, defended the conduct of Marshal Bazaine, and served on the committee which elaborated the monarchical constitution. When the comte de Chambord refused the com promise, he moved the resolution to extend the executive power for ten years to Marshal MacMahon. He was elected a life sena tor in 1875. He died in Paris on Feb. 14, 1877.
See Comte d'Antioche, Changarnier (1891) .