BUGEAUD DE LA PICONNERIE, de IS pA'keerk!", TBOM AS RonliaT, Due d'Isly (1784-1849). A French marshal. lie was born in Limoges, Department of Haute-Vienne, France, and in his twentieth year entered the army as a private. His conspicuous bravery in the Prus sian, Polish, and Spanish campaigns gained him rapid promotion. Shortly before the fall of Na poleon Bugeaud was made a colonel, and in 1815 commanded the advance-guard of the army corps of the Alps. He afterwards retired to his estates, but was called into public life by the July Revolution of 1830. He was elected deputy for P6rigueux. in 1831, and gained the esteem of Louis Philippe. In 1834 he put down an insur rection in the streets of Paris. The next year he voted against electoral reforms and universal suf frage, denounced the 'tyranny of the press.' and soon contrived to make himself very unpopular. In 1840 lie was appointed Governor-General of Algeria. He immediately set about organizing the celebrated irregular force known as the Zou ayes, and in a few years the French arms were everywhere triumphant over the Arab tribes.
The cruelty of sonic of Bugeaud's proceedings excited strong feelings of reprobation at the time in France and in Europe generally. In 1844 he gained a victory over the Emperor of Morocco's forces at Isly, for which lie was cre ated a marshal of France and received the title of Due d']sly. At the outbreak of the Revolu tion of February, 1848, Marshal Bugeaud re ceived the command of the army in Paris, but, having counseled the strictest measures in order to quell the outbreak, he was dismissed by the frightened King the following day (February 24). When Louis Napoleon became President lie intrusted the chief command of the Army of the Alps to Bugeaud, but he soon after died of the cholera in Paris. Ile loft behind him his which were translated into English in 1882.