Auguste Mercier [SEP] date of death
Auguste Mercier
Auguste Mercier (8 December 1833, Arras – 3 March 1921, Paris) was a French general and Minister of War at the time of the Dreyfus Affair.
Military career.
Auguste Mercier entered the École Polytechnique at the age of 19 in 1852, and came 4th in a class of 106. He continued for a second period in 1854 and chose to enter the artillery.
Appointed in 1856 as a second lieutenant in the 13th Regiment of Mounted Artillery, then in 1856, he was assigned
century, leaving only the fountain.
Fontaine Cardinal Mercier. Rue du Cardinal Mercier, former rue Nouvelle. (Date of construction unknown.)
Fontaine du Lycée Bonaparte, 1806-1807. Rue Neuve-Sainte-Crois, now rue Caurmartin.
Fontaine Saint-Georges. Place Saint-Georges. 1824-1825. Auguste Constantin, architect. (Destroyed 1904).
Fontaine Pigalle, or Fontaine de la Place de la Barrière-Montmartre, place Pigalle. 1862-1863. Gabriel Davioud, architect