LAMORICIERE, CIIRISTOPIZE LEON Louts JIICHATTLT DE, a French general, was b. at Nantes, Feb. 5, 1806, studied at the ecole polytechnique, and after the revolu tion of 1830 went to Algeria as a lieut. of engineers. In 1833 he became chief of the battalion of zouaves; in 1835, lieut.col.; and in 1837, col. He particularly distinguished -himself at the siege of Constantine. in 1843 he was appointed a gen. of division; in the following year commander of the legion of honor; and in 1845, interim-governor of Algeria. To him belongs the glory of concluding the war in Africa, where he had made no fewer than 18 campaigns, 'by-forcing. Abd-el-Kader to surrender in 1847. On the out break of the revolution in Feb.. 1848, he nearly lost his life in endeavoring to proclaim the regency of the duchess of Orleans. In June, 1848, he commanded the attack on the barricades, and quelled the anarchic tumults of the socialists. He was war minister during
the government of gen. Cavaignac, to whose republican party be afterward attached himself in the legislative chamber; but being a very decided opponent of the schemes of Louis Napoleon, he was arrested on the occasion of the coup d'Oat of Dec. 2, 1851, and at first imprisoned in Ham, but afterward conveyed out of France and set at liberty. During his exile, which he spent in Germany, Ielginui• and England, the great soldier became decout, as his countrymen phrase it; and when the Italian war of independence threatened the safety of the pope, Lamorick)re proceeded to Home in 1860, and was appointed by Pius IX. commander of the papal troops. He was, however, compelled to surrender with his whole force to the Sardinian gen., Cialdini, at Ancona. He died Sept., 1805 LA MOTTE-FOtiQtik See FOUQUE, ante.