Kammala wannan jumla: An haifi Charles-Denis Sauter Bourbaki a ranar 22 ga Afrilu 1816 a Pau, Faransa, ga dangin Girka. Ya zama babban janar mai nasara a zamanin Napoleon III, yana aiki a Yakin Crimea da sauran rikice-rikice. Duk da haka, a lokacin yakin Franco-Prussian, Charles-Denis Bourbaki ya sha wahala sosai. A lokacin Siege na Metz, an yaudare shi zuwa Biritaniya a kan ƙarya da'awar zaman lafiya taro, kuma a kan dawowa zuwa nahiyar da aka ɗora wa alhakin dauke da
Siege na Belfort, ƙoƙarin da ya kasa. An tilasta Charles-Denis Bourbaki ya koma baya tare da sojojinsa - Armée de l'Est - a kan iyakar Switzerland. Sojojin Switzerland sun kwashe makaman sojojin, kuma janar din ya yi kokarin kashe kansa ba tare da nasara ba. Charles-Denis Bourbaki daga baya ya mutu a ranar 27 ga Satumba, 1897, kuma labarin ban mamaki na rashin nasararsa ya shiga tunanin Faransa.