Adrien-Hippolyte-Arthur Foy
1793–1877 (age 84)
Biography
Adrien-Hippolyte-Arthur Foy (1793–1877) was a French military officer whose career spanned the Napoleonic Wars and the subsequent decades of French history. As a soldier, he served his nation through periods of conflict and reconstruction, embodying the martial traditions of nineteenth-century France.
His long life of eighty-four years allowed him to witness the transformation of France from the revolutionary and Napoleonic era through the establishment of the modern French state. He was honored with burial in Père Lachaise Cemetery.