Amédée-François Lamy ( French pronunciation: [amede fʁɑ̃swa lami] ) was a French military officer. He was born at Mougins , in the French département of Alpes-Maritimes on 7 February 1858 and died in the battle of Kousséri on 22 April 1900 as a French explorer officer.
25-409: He is the son of lieutenant Joseph Sosthène Lamy (1818–1891), originally from Nancy, and of Elisabeth Giraud, from an old and notable Provençal family, whose father Louis Giraud, notary, had married Honorine Courmes, from Grasse, the latter was the daughter of Claude-Marie Courmes , mayor of Grasse from 1830 to 1835. Lamy's ambition to become an officer developed very early; at ten-years-old, he entered
50-487: A caste where family ties and interest pacts are extremely entangled. The Courmes had warehouses in Grasse and Cannes, Claude-Marie Courmes' soap factory is as modern as the Grasse factories. The Courmes house, linked to major Marseille commerce, invests in a commercial fleet and takes shares notably in the "Tartane Saint-Pierre", "L'avenir" and the "Rose-Louise". Courmes was part of a group of young royalists from Grasse,
75-549: A military style collar, and the legend COMMANDANT LAMY 1900 . There is a Lamy barracks in Longuyon 54 Claude-Marie Courmes Claude-Marie Courmes (September 9, 1770, Grasse , Alpes-Maritimes – January 31, 1865, Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes) was a French merchant, shipowner and politician. Mayor of Grasse from 1830 to 1835, he was elected deputy for Var from July 1831 to May 1834 and General Councilor of Var Canton of Grasse-Nord from 1833 to 1836. A direct descendant in
100-617: A revolutionary in accepting "new ideas" at the beginning of the Revolution, in 1789–1790. On 9 September 1791, he was elected member of Legislative Assembly by the department of Var , in southeastern of France (district of Draguignan . Isnard was linked to Brissot and sat at the left of the Assembly. He was very violent in his talks. For example, in his opinion, the French State had to deport all priests who have not accepted
125-517: A royalist, he was elected deputy for the Var to the Council of Five Hundred , where he played a very insignificant role. In 1797 he retired to Draguignan . In 1802, he published a pamphlet titled De l'immortalité de l'âme ("Immortality of Soul"), in which he praised Catholicism , and in 1804 another pamphlet, Réflexions relatives au sénatus-consulte du 28 floréal an XII , an enthusiastic apology for
150-462: A son, Jean-Jacques (1784-1845), Baron Isnard, private receiver of finances, who married Eugénie-Gabrielle Luce in 1813, daughter of the banker Honoré-François Luce. Their grandson Joseph-Honoré (1817-1898) was confirmed in the title of Baron Isnard by letters patent of September 7, 1864. He became perfumer in Draguignan before opening a factory specializing in silk and soap. Isnard was quickly
175-605: The Chad Basin . In the following battle , in which Lamy was in command with 700 riflemen, while the French reported a crushing victory, Lamy was killed, as was Rabih. In his honour, the first French governor, Émile Gentil , named the capital of the new French territory of Chad Fort-Lamy , which name it bore until it was renamed N'Djamena in 1973. In 1970, Chad issued an undated gold 1,000 francs coin as part of its tenth independence celebrations. One side features Lamy's head, with
200-576: The Prytanée national militaire , where he won the first prize in Geography in the general concourse of all the department's school, a possible sign of his future colonial career. In 1877 he entered at Saint-Cyr , the foremost French military academy . Lamy began his career in 1879 as a second lieutenant in the First regiment of Algerian tirailleurs . He discovered Saharan Africa, and took part in
225-527: The agnatic line of the Huguenot captain Luc Courmes (1580, Grasse ), Claude-Marie Courmes belonged to an ancient French bourgeoisie [ fr ]. He married in 1801 Marie Marguerite Justine Isnard (1779+1851), she is the niece of Baron Isnard . He acquired the old Clapiers-Cabris hotel in Grasse. with his younger brother Antoine Joseph Courmes (1777+1858). The latter is the great-grandfather of
250-617: The "Children of the Sun" who notably formed a counter-revolutionary gathering on Ventôse 7, Year V (February 25, 1797) in Grasse on the Place aux Aires where "Le Réveil" was sung. Police report : "Claude [Marie] Courmes fils, merchant, set the tone during the demonstration on the square with cries of "Long live the King! » "Down with the Republic!; we also saw him that day distributing rifles to
275-675: The Foureau-Lamy Mission in 1898, charged, with another two expeditions, the Gentil and Voulet–Chanoine missions, to conquer Chad and unify all French dominions in West Africa . Foureau and Lamy proceeded from Algiers through the Sahara, and met with the other two missions at Kousséri on 21 April 1900. The following day the united French forces confronted Rabih az-Zubayr , a Sudanese warlord who had created an empire in
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#1732765552303300-704: The French occupation of Tunisia ; he was sent in 1884 to Tonkin , where he remained until 1886. The following year he was back in Algeria, where he became aide-de-camp to the General in command of the division quartered in Algiers in 1887, and resumed his previous interest in the Sahara and learned to exploit the qualities of the méharistes , the camel cavalry. Fascinated by the desert, he learned how to live with little: "Personally, I will be really happy only when I'll be able to live without neither drinking nor eating. At
325-635: The Girondist majority, the report recommending a smaller committee of nine, which two days later was established as the Committee of Public Safety . He was elected President of the Convention on 16 May 1793. Isnard was presiding at the Convention when a deputation of the commune of Paris came to demand that Jacques René Hébert should be set at liberty, and he made the famous reply: "If by these insurrections, continually renewed, it should happen that
350-542: The Revolution. He supported the "brissotins" who wanted a war against foreign countries, in order to strengthen Revolution. Attacking the court, and the Austrian committee in the Tuileries, he demanded the disbandment of the king's bodyguard, and reproached Louis XVI for infidelity to the constitution. But on 20 June 1792, when the crowd invaded the palace, he was one of the deputies who went to place themselves beside
375-474: The general council". At the end of his life he became blind. Charles Nègre made his photographic portrait in 1852. He died in Grasse at the age of 94. Maximin Isnard Maximin Isnard ( French pronunciation: [maksimɛ̃ isnaʁ] ; 16 November 1755 Grasse , Alpes-Maritimes – 12 March 1825 Grasse), French revolutionary , was a dealer in perfumery at Draguignan when he
400-438: The government as mayor of Grasse in 1830. François-Xavier Emmanuelli describes him as "A soap maker, moderate royalist for whom the change of dynasty and the limited expansion of the censary regime constituted the final concessions to the new spirit". Confirmed to this position in 1832, elected deputy for Var (Grasse constituency) on July 5, 1831, he took his place in the ranks of the government majority and voted with it until 1834,
425-689: The king to protect him. Elected to the National Convention in September 1792, he was sent to the army of the North, near Nice, to justify the insurrection ; he announced the take of Sospel and went back to Paris in autumn. He voted for the death of Louis XVI in January 1793 and became a member of the Committee of General Security . The committee, consisting of 25 members, proved unwieldy, and on 4 April, Isnard presented, on behalf of
450-565: The moment, I'm attempting this kind of existence, but obtaining only a meagre success. I'm still obliged to eat more than six dates at my meals: this is afflicting!". In 1893 Lamy participated in the Le Chatelier Mission ( Middle Congo ) where he was in charge of studying the project of a railway between Brazzaville and the coast, and also of making botanical, geological and geographical studies. Through Alfred Le Chatelier , Lamy later met Fernand Foureau , with whom he assembled
475-569: The participants". Suspected in Year II, he entered the municipal council after Thermidor , he was prosecuted after the republican coup of Year V (1796–1797 September 4), then he was appointed again to the municipal council under the Empire. Member of the district electoral college in 1804, general councilor of Var from 1811 to 1833, sitting in the majority supporting the July monarchy, he was placed by
500-458: The principle of national representation should suffer, I declare to you in the name of France that soon people will search the banks of the Seine to see if Paris has ever existed" On 2 June 1793 he offered his resignation as representative of the people, but was not comprised in the decree by which the Convention determined upon the arrest of twenty-nine Girondists. On 3 October, however, his arrest
525-438: The squadron leader Marcel Courmes . The Courmes houses undoubtedly represented by far the two most important businesses in Grasse, very prosperous, the soap factory maintains close relationships by its very nature, with the oil mill and the emerging perfumery The object, the commercial goal sought is vast. Alongside leathers, wheat, oils, flowers, tropical products and private banking will soon appear. The Grasse "merchants" form
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#1732765552303550-532: The year in which he gave up his seat on May 25, 1834. "Under the Restoration, the prefect of Var, in his report on the voters of 1816, said of him: "A rich merchant, he has means and through the Baron Isnard family to which he belongs, he has a lot of influence. His opinions are those of a member of the center. He is a friend of order, devoted to the government. He is one of the most enlightened men in
575-756: Was asked to give up his seat. Born in 1755, he is the youngest son of Maximin Isnard (1731-1799) and Anne Thérèse Fanton, cousin of the Fantons of Andon. He is the grandson (on the paternal line) of Jacques Isnard, merchant curator, was lord of Deux-Frères and Esclapon, and of Claire Courmes, both from old families of the bourgeoisie of Grasse. His sister Françoise (1722-1805), wife of Antoine Court (they had several children: Honoré, Michel and Joseph Court d'Esclapon and de Fontmichel). His niece, Marie Marguerite Justine Isnard, married Claude-Marie Courmes (1770-1865) in 1801. He married Madeleine Clérion in 1778. They had
600-679: Was decreed along with that of several other Girondist deputies who had left the Convention and were fomenting civil war in the departments. Initially proscribed during the Thermidorian Reaction , he was allowed to return to the Convention on 4 December 1794. Seating to the Right, he became an adversary of more extremist revolutionaries. In May 1795, he was sent to the département of Bouches-du-Rhône to uncover and prosecute fleeing Jacobins , which led him to being suspected of royalist sympathies. On 13 October 1795, now regarded as
625-743: Was elected deputy for the département of the Var to the Legislative Assembly , where he joined the Girondists . As the president of the National Convention Isnard, who had enough of the tyranny of the Paris Commune , threatened the destruction of Paris. He declared that the Convention would not be influenced by any violence and that Paris had to respect the representatives from elsewhere in France. Isnard
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