Marie Edme Patrice Maurice MacMahon, Duc de Magenta, French soldier and statesman, c1880. Artist: Anon

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Marie Edme Patrice Maurice MacMahon, Duc de Magenta, French soldier and statesman, c1880. Of Irish descent, MacMahon (1808-1893) was the commander of the French army defeated by the Prussians at the Battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. He later served as President of France from 1873-1879. From The Modern Portrait Gallery. (London, c1880).

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