Marshal MacMahon, French soldier and politician Size:XL: 100 x 70cm When Dick Chipperfield bought George

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Marshal MacMahon, French soldier and politician Size:XL: 100 x 70cm When Dick Chipperfield bought GeorgeMarshal MacMahon, French soldier and politician, 1873. Of Irish descent, Patrice MacMahon (1808 1893) was the commander of the French army defeated by the Prussians at the Battle of Sedan in the Franco Prussian War in 1870. He later served as President of France from 1873 1879. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860 1920, 6th album, Editions MD, Paris.