Freycinet
CHARLES LOUIS DE SAULCE DE, a French statesman. He was born in 1828 and received his preliminary education at the École Polytechnique. He engaged himself both with politics and engineering, and in 1870 became state engineer of mines. In the same year he was appointed Prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne, and was Minister of Public Works, 1877-1879. He then held the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs intermittently from 1879 to 1886. From FRICOURT 1888 to 1899 he was Minister of War, becoming in 1893 President of the Commission of the Army. Member of the French Academy; officer of the Legion of Honor; Senateur of the Seine; Inspector-General of Mines.