Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. François Achille Bazaine was a French General and from 1864, a Marshal of France, who surrendered the last organized French army to the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian war. He was the first Marshal who had started as a legionnaire and like the great Marshals of the First Empire, he had risen from the ranks. During four decades of distinguished service under Louis-Philippe and then Napoleon III, he held every rank in the Army from Fusilier to Marshal of France.