Alphonse-Theodore Lecointe was a French general and politician.
13 Facts About Alphonse Lecointe
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Alphonse Lecointe entered the French military academy at Saint-Cyr in 1837 and successively was promoted to sous-lieutenant of infantry in 1839, lieutenant in 1842, capitaine in 1848, and major in 1854.
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Alphonse Lecointe took part in the Crimean War as a battalion commander attached to the army of General de division Pierre Bosquet and participated in the Battle of the Alma on 20 September 1854 and the Battle of Malakoff on 8 September 1855.
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Alphonse Lecointe returned to France in 1859 at the time of the Second Italian War of Independence.
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Alphonse Lecointe was stationed with the garrison of Paris after the war and was promoted to colonel in 1864.
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In 1866, Alphonse Lecointe took command of the 2nd Grenadier Regiment of the Imperial Guard Corps.
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Alphonse Lecointe was wounded during the Battle of Mars-la-Tour on 16 August 1870 and was surrounded in Metz with the rest of the Army of the Rhine on 19 August 1870, beginning the 70-day Siege of Metz.
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When Metz capitulated in October 1870, Alphonse Lecointe escaped and joined the Army of the North, led first by General de division Charles-Denis Bourbaki and then provisionally by General de brigade Jean-Joseph Farre.
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Alphonse Lecointe was recalled to active duty in 1873 as commander of the 1st Division of I Corps in Lille.
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Alphonse Lecointe took command of the 17th Corps in Toulouse in 1878, then of the 14th Corps at Lyon in 1879.
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When General Justin Clinchant died in 1881, Alphonse Lecointe replaced him as military governor of Paris in 1882, holding the position until 1884.
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Alphonse Lecointe sympathized with the political left, supported the republican ministries, and was re-elected on 6 January 1885.
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Alphonse Lecointe continued to support the left and vote with the republicans the senate, but abstained from voting on the expulsion of princes.