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Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes (27 November 1790, Paris - 10 June 1860) was a French admiral and senator
French Senate

The Senate is the upper house of the Parliament of France, presided over by a List of Presidents of the French Senate.The Senate enjoys less prominence than the lower house, the directly elected National Assembly of France; debates in the Senate tend to be less tense and enjoy generally less media coverage....
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into an aristocratic family, he was the nephew of the mathematician Marc-Antoine Parseval
Marc-Antoine Parseval

Marc-Antoine Parseval des Chênes was a France mathematician, most famous for what is now known as Parseval's theorem, which presaged the Unitary operator of the Fourier transform....
 and the Académicien François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison. He volunteered for the Navy in 1804 and participated in the recapture of Fort Le Diamant
Le Diamant

Le Diamant is a Communes of France in the France D?partement d'outre-mer Departments of France of Martinique....
 on Martinique
Martinique

Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1,128 km?. It is an overseas department of France. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia....
, then fought at Trafalgar
Battle of Trafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the United Kingdom Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy , during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars ....
 as an aspirant
Aspirant

Aspirant is a military rank in the Military of France, Military of Brazil,Romanian Naval Forces and Poland Police....
 on board Bucentaure
French ship Bucentaure (1804)

Bucentaure was a Tonnant class ship of the line 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Louis-Ren? Levassor de Latouche Tr?ville, who died on board on 18 August 1804....
, the admiral's flagship.






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Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes (27 November 1790, Paris - 10 June 1860) was a French admiral and senator
French Senate

The Senate is the upper house of the Parliament of France, presided over by a List of Presidents of the French Senate.The Senate enjoys less prominence than the lower house, the directly elected National Assembly of France; debates in the Senate tend to be less tense and enjoy generally less media coverage....
.

Life

Born into an aristocratic family, he was the nephew of the mathematician Marc-Antoine Parseval
Marc-Antoine Parseval

Marc-Antoine Parseval des Chênes was a France mathematician, most famous for what is now known as Parseval's theorem, which presaged the Unitary operator of the Fourier transform....
 and the Académicien François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison. He volunteered for the Navy in 1804 and participated in the recapture of Fort Le Diamant
Le Diamant

Le Diamant is a Communes of France in the France D?partement d'outre-mer Departments of France of Martinique....
 on Martinique
Martinique

Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1,128 km?. It is an overseas department of France. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia....
, then fought at Trafalgar
Battle of Trafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the United Kingdom Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy , during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars ....
 as an aspirant
Aspirant

Aspirant is a military rank in the Military of France, Military of Brazil,Romanian Naval Forces and Poland Police....
 on board Bucentaure
French ship Bucentaure (1804)

Bucentaure was a Tonnant class ship of the line 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Louis-Ren? Levassor de Latouche Tr?ville, who died on board on 18 August 1804....
, the admiral's flagship. As an enseigne de vaisseau, Parseval-Deschenes participated in the 1815 hydrographic investigations of Brittany
Brittany

Brittany is a former independent Celtic nations monarchy and duchy, now incorporated into France. It is also, more generally, the name of the cultural area whose limits correspond to the historic province and independent duchy....
. In 1817 he took part in the expedition that retook Guyana
Guyana

Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America....
 for France, then commanded the French naval station in that colony for two years.

In 1822, as lieutenant de vaisseau, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur
Légion d'honneur

The L?gion d'honneur or Ordre national de la L?gion d'honneur is a France order established by Napoleon I of France, First Consul of the French First Republic, on May 19, 1802....
 for successfully rescuing the crew of the frigate l'Africaine, shipwrecked on the Newfoundland
Newfoundland

Newfoundland ? ? is a large Canadian island off the east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Provinces and territories of Canada of Newfoundland and Labrador....
 coast. He then commanded the frigate Iphigénie in the Mexico expedition
Pastry War

The Pastry War was an invasion of Mexico by France forces in 1838....
 participating in the blockade of Veracruz and bombardment of San Juan de Ulúa
Battle of San Juan de Ulúa (1838)

The Battle of San Juan de Ul?a was a battle of the Pastry War in which French naval forces blockaded and bombarded San Juan de Ul?a. It occurred 27 November 1838 to 5 December 1838....
 in 1838, then the occupation of Argentine island of Martin-Garcia
Isla Martín García

Isla Mart?n Garc?a is an Argentina island off the R?o de la Plata coast of Uruguay. The enclave island is within the boundaries of Uruguayan waters; in 1973 both countries reached an agreement establishing Mart?n Garc?a as an Argentine territory and also as a nature reserve....
 in 1839.

Promoted to contre-amiral in 30 April 1840, he then served as major-general of the navy at Toulon
Toulon

Toulon is a city in southern France and a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-C?te-d'Azur regions of France, Toulon is the Prefectures in France of the Var departments of France, in the former provinces of France of Provence....
, then naval prefect at Cherbourg, before commanding the training squadron in the Mediterranean. He then rose to vice admiral on 15 July 1846, he next served as maritime prefect at Toulon then once again commander of the Mediterranean training squadron. He entered the Conseil de l'amirauté in 1851 and presided over the Conseil des travaux de la Marine. He was made a senator by Napoleon III on 26 November 1852. He the commanded France's Baltic fleet during the Crimean War
Crimean War

The Crimean War, also known in Russia as the Oriental War was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire on the other....
, with which he bombarded the Russian fortress of Bomarsund
Bomarsund

Bomarsund may refer to:*Bomarsund, ?land, fortress in the ?land Islands, in the Baltic Sea*Bomarsund, Northumberland, village in Northumberland, England...
 and received its surrender on 16 August - as a reward he was promoted to admiral on the following 2 December. Admiral Parseval-Deschenes is buried at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise.

Recognition

  • An 1855 portrait of him by Charles-Philippe Larivière
    Charles-Philippe Larivière

    Charles-Philippe Larivi?re was a French academic art painter and lithographer....
     is now in the musée du Château de Versailles.
  • An aviso
    Aviso

    An aviso , a kind of dispatch boat or advice boat, survives particularly in the French navy.The Dictionnaire de la Marine Fran?aise 1788 – 1792 describes avisos as "small boats designed to carry orders or advices"....
     in the French Navy
    French Navy

    The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale , is the maritime arm of the French military. It consists of a full range of vessels, from patrol boats to guided missile frigates, and includes one nuclear aircraft carrier and ten nuclear submarines ....
     (launched in 1879 and decommissioned in 1898) was named after him.


Decorations

  • Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur
    Légion d'honneur

    The L?gion d'honneur or Ordre national de la L?gion d'honneur is a France order established by Napoleon I of France, First Consul of the French First Republic, on May 19, 1802....
      - 30 August 1854.
  • Médaille Militaire
    Médaille militaire

    The M?daille militaire is a decoration of the French Republic which was first instituted in 1852.The creator of the m?daille was the emperor Napol?on III, who may have taken his inspiration in a medal issued by his father, Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland....
     - 1854.


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