LECLERC, Charles Victor Em manuel, French general: b. Pontoise, 17 March 1772; d. San Domingo, 2 Nov. 1802. He entered the cavalry service in 1791 and was aide-de-camp to General Lapoype. At the siege of Toulon he won the interest of Napoleon, who thereafter held him in high regard. Leclerc accompanied Napoleon as his adjutant in the Italian campaign of 1796, and in 1797 he was married to Napoleon's sister Pauline. He served in thetan campaign, receiving rank as general and he afterward was engaged at Fleurus and Hohenlinden. He was placed in command of the expedition against Toussaint l'Ouverture in 1801 and suc ceeded in securing the surrender of the negro governor and his forces, but himself fell a victim to yellow fever and died in San Domingo.
LECOCQ, Alexander Charles, French composer: b. Paris, 3 June 1832; d. 1 March 1911. He received his musical education in the Conservatory of the capital, under Bazin and Halevy, and the earliest of his operas to appear was 'Le docteur miracle,' which had won the first Offenbach prize. His operetta
'Fleur de The) pined him the widest recogni tion. In this as in his later productions he fol lowed the advice he had received from Offen bach, that the operetta should be elevated into a work of art. His principal operettas are 'Les jumeaux de Bergame' (1868) • 'Gandolfo' (1869) ; 'Le beau Dunois) (1870) ; (La fille de Madame Angot) (1872) ; (Girolie Girofla) (1874) ; 'La petite Mariee (1875) ; (Kosild) (1876) ; dompteur) (1877) 'Le petit duc' (1878) ; Rousette' (1881) ; (Plutus' (1886), etc. They are 42 in number, and have attained the most remarkable popularity in France and elsewhere.