CHAMBRAY, GEORGES, MARQUIS DE, was born at Paris in 1783. The De Chambray family was ono of the oldest in Normandy, but was ruined by the revolution. The young Chambray was educated at the Pcole Polytechnique. He entered the artillery, and served in the German campaigns of 18069, in the course of which ho rose to the rank of captain. In the disastrous Russian campaigu he served as captain iu the imperial artillery ; but in the retreat he was left sick at Wilma, where he fell into the hands of the Russians, who sent him into the Ukraine. After the fall of Napoleon in 1815 ho returned to France, cud was made a major in tho garde royale. By 1825 he had risen to the rank of colonel-director of the artillery of Perpignan; but his health had never wholly recovered from his sufferings in Russia, and he was at length (1829) permitted to retire from the service with the honorary title of mardchal.de-camp. Relieved from his military duties, M. de Chambray immediately set about the composition of a work he had for some time meditated, on the Russian campaigu, and in the composition of it he had tha advantage, besides his own expe rience, of having access to the documents in the war office as well as to the private papers of officers who had shared like himself iu the events he had to narrate. It appeared in 1833 in 2 vole. 8vo, with an
atlas, under the title of 'Histoire de l'Expedition de Ruasie.' The great importance of the work was at once recognised, aud the notices which it called forth in other countries as well as in France, led M. de Chambray to carefully revise it for another edition, which was pub lished in 1829 in 3 vols. 8vo ; and subsequently (1835) to add two new chapters. M. de Chambray also published a 'Refutation de la brochure intitul6e—la vdrit6 our l'incendie de Moscou, par In comte Rotopschin; as well as various pamphlets on infantry tactics and other subjects connected with military affairs, reviews of Jomini, ann Carlon Niue, and a life of Vauban, all of which have been collected and published under the title of Melanges.' (Rabbi, Diet. Port. des Contemp.; None. Biog. Univ.)