PERSIGNY

Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de (son of M. Fialin, killed at Salamanca 1812). b. St. Germain-Lespina e, Loire, France 11 Jany. 1808; served in the army 1828–31; a journalist in Paris 1831; resumed family title of vicomte de Persigny; the principal contriver of prince Louis Napoleon’s Strasburg expedition 1836, of which he wrote an account entitled Relation de l’enterprise du prince Napoléon-Louis, London 1837; a refugee in England 1836–48; one of the ten knights visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for his share in Louis Napoleon’s Boulogne expedition 1840; returned to Paris 1848; minister of the interior Jany. 1852 to June 1854 and Nov. 1860 to June 1863; amba ador to England May 1855 to March 1858 and May 1859 to Nov. 1860; grand cro of the legion of honour 16 June 1857; created duc de Persigny 13 Sept. 1863; a refugee in England 1871. d. Nice 12 Jany. 1872. H. Castille’s Portraits politiques (1857) pp. 1–60 portrait , No. 20; Weekly Reporter xi 146 (1863).