FAILLY

(fa-yé), Pierre Louis Charles Achille de, French general, born in 1810, died in 1832. He distinguished himself in the Crime an War, and commanded a division against the Austrians in 1859. He was the means of introducing the Cha ep6t rifle into the I’'rench army, and commanded the troops which dispersed Garibaldi’s irregulars at Mentana. At the outbreak of the Franco-German War Failly received the command of the $th Corps, but was very unfortunate 372 FAIR BAIRN | or unskilful in his organization of operations. His masterly inactivity in the early weeks of the war caused great popular indignation in France. Sedan ended his career as a soldier.