Edmond Jurien de La Gravière
Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (19 November 1812 in Brest, Finistère5 March 1892) was a French admiral, son of Admiral Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière, who served through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was a peer of France under Louis-Philippe.
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Edmond Jurien de La Gravière

Eugène Pirou · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
- Born
- 1812. · Brest.
- Died
- 1892. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- writer and military officer.
- Education
- Lycée Charlemagne.
- Honours
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour and Médaille militaire.
- Languages
- French.
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Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (19 November 1812 in Brest, Finistère5 March 1892) was a French admiral, son of Admiral Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière, who served through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was a peer of France under Louis-Philippe.
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Edmond Jurien de La Gravière studied at Lycée Charlemagne. The recorded working language is French. Positions recorded include seat 6 of the Académie française and president of the French Academy of Sciences. Distinctions recorded are Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour and Médaille militaire.
He entered the navy in 1827, was made a commander in 1841, and captain in 1850. During the Crimean War he commanded a ship in the Black Sea. He was promoted to be rear-admiral on 1 December 1855, and appointed to the command of a squadron in the Adriatic in 1859, when he absolutely sealed the Austrian ports with a close blockade. In October 1861 he was appointed to command the squadron in the Gulf of Mexico, and two months later the expedition against Mexico. On 15 January 1862 he was promoted to be vice-admiral. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 he had command of the French Mediterranean fleet, and in 1871 he was appointed director of charts. As having commanded in chief before the enemy, the age-limit was waived in his favor, and he was continued on the active list. Jurien died on 4 March 1892. He was an author of voluminous works on naval history and biography, most of which first appeared in the Revue des deux mondes. Among the most noteworthy of these are Guerres maritimes sous la république et sous l’empire, which was translated by Lord Dunsany under the title of Sketches of the Last Naval War (1848); La Marine d'autrefois (1865), largely autobiographical; and La Marine d'aujourd'hui (1872). In 1866 he was elected a member of the Academy.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de La Gravière, Edmond Jurien de La Graviere and Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de La Graviere. His recorded language was French.

L'Illustration 1862 gravure Le Contre-Amiral Jurien de la Gravière
L'Illustration, Journal Universel, fevrier 1862 p 72, scan Havang(nl)
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Edmond Jurien de La Gravière born at Brest.
1892
Edmond Jurien de La Gravière died at Paris.
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Recorded positions include seat 6 of the Académie française and president of the French Academy of Sciences. He belonged to Académie Française, French Academy of Sciences and Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques.
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