Léonard Victor Joseph Charner
| Léonard Victor Joseph Charner | |
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 Léonard Victor Joseph Charner
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| Representative of Côtes-du-Nord | |
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In office 13 May 1849 – 2 December 1851 | |
| Governor of Cochinchina | |
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In office 6 February 1861 – 30 November 1861 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph Hyacinthe Louis Jules d'Ariès |
| Succeeded by | Louis Adolphe Bonard |
| Senator | |
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In office 22 February 1862 – 6 February 1869 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
13 February 1797 Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, France |
| Died |
7 February 1869 (aged 71) Paris, France |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |
 France
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| Service/ |
French Navy |
| Rank | Amiral |
| Battles/wars |
Second Opium War Siege of Saigon Cochinchina Campaign |
Léonard Victor Joseph Charner (13 February 1797 – 7 February 1869) was an Admiral of the French Navy.
Léonard Victor Joseph Charner was born on 13 February 1797 in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany. He became a cadet at the Ecole de Marine in Toulon in February 1812, was appointed a midshipman in 1815 and served in several ships. He was promoted to enseigne de vaisseau (ensign) in 1820 and lieutenant de vaisseau (ship-of-the-line lieutenant) in 1828. He participated in the Invasion of Algiers in 1830. He recorded his observations in a memoir on the duration of naval manoeuvres. In 1832 Charner received the cross of the Legion of Honour for the capture of Ancona.
Charner became a capitaine de corvette (lieutenant commander ) in 1837. As second in command of the Belle Poule he accompanied François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville to Saint Helena to bring back the remains of Napoleon to France in 1840 (the Retour des cendres). He was appointed capitaine de vaisseau (ship-of-the-line captain) in April 1841, and served in various naval commands during the remainder of the July Monarchy. In 1843 Charner was part of the fleet sent to the Pacific Ocean by the French Foreign Minister François Guizot under Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille with the diplomat Marie Melchior Joseph Théodore de Lagrené. The move responded to the successes of the British in China in 1842, and France hoped to counterbalance these successes by accessing China from the south.
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