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Franco is, Achille, a French military officer, born in Versailles, Feb. 18, 1811. He served in Algeria, in Spain against the Car lists, in the Crime an War, and joined the Mexican expedition as general of division, in 1862, and, in 1864, was made a marshal of France. He commanded the 3d Army Corps in the Franco-Pru ian War, when he capitulated at Metz, after a seven weeks’ siege, with an army of 175,000 men. For this act he was tried by court martial in 1871, found guilty of treason and condemned to death. This sentence was commuted to 20 years’ seclusion in the Isle St. Marguerite, from which he escaped and retired to Spain. He died in Madrid, Sept. 23, 1888. His widow, who had clung faithfully to him in his adversity, and had plotted succe fully for his escape, died in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 1900. She was a woman of aristocratic birth and much beauty.