Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes
| Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschênes | |
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Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes by Charles-Philippe Larivière, 1855 (musée du Château de Versailles)
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| Born |
27 November 1790 Paris, France |
| Died | 10 June 1860 (aged 69) Paris, France |
| Buried at | Cimetière du Père-Lachaise |
| Allegiance |
 First French Empire Bourbon Restoration July Monarchy French Second Republic Second French Empire
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| Service/branch | French Navy |
| Years of service | 1804–1860 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Battles/wars |
Pastry War Crimean War |
| Awards | Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur |
| Other work | Senator |
Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes (27 November 1790 – 10 June 1860) was a French admiral and senator.
Born in Paris to an aristocratic family, Alexandre was the nephew of the mathematician Marc-Antoine Parseval and the Académicien François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison. He volunteered for the Navy in 1804 and participated in the recapture of Fort Le Diamant on Martinique, then fought at Trafalgar as an aspirant on board Bucentaure, the admiral's flagship. As an enseigne de vaisseau, Parseval-Deschenes participated in the 1815 hydrographic investigations of Brittany. In 1817 he took part in the expedition that retook Guyana for France, ending its occupation by Portugal, and then commanded the French naval station in that colony for two years.
[[History of French Guiana#1800s and the penal era Portuguese conquest of French Guiana In 1822, as lieutenant de vaisseau, Alexandre was awarded the Légion d'honneur for successfully rescuing the crew of the frigate Africaine, shipwrecked on the Newfoundland coast. He then commanded the frigate Iphigénie in the Mexico expedition participating in the blockade of Veracruz and bombardment of San Juan de Ulúa in 1838, then the occupation of Argentine island of Martin-Garcia in 1839.
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