Amable Jean Jacques Pelissier, duke of Ma-lakoff, a marshal of France, born at Maromme, near Eouen, Nov. 6, 1794, died May 22, 1864. He studied at the military schools of La Fleche and St. Oyr, entered the artillery, served in Spain in 1823, became a captain in 1828, served in Greece, and in 1830 took part in the expedition against Algeria. In July, 1843, he was made colonel, and in 1845 entered the territory of the Ouled Riahs, who took refuge in one of the spacious caverns in which their country abounds. To all summonses to surrender they refused to listen, and even prevented the approach of messengers by the discharge of firearms. Finally Pelissier applied burning fagots to the mouth of the cave, and suffocated nearly 600 of the Arabs. This action excited general condemnation, but Marshal Bugeaud declared that his subordinate had acted in accordance with his orders. In 1846 Pelissier became brigadier general, and in 1850 general bf division. He remained in Algeria till January, 1855, when he was ordered to the Crimea as second in command, and in May he succeeded Canrobert as chief commander. After the fall of Sebastopol he was created marshal of France and duke of Malakoff, and received by vote of the legislative body a pension of 100,000 francs.

He replaced Count Persigny as minister to England in April, 1858; but in 1859, on the outbreak of the Italian war, he was recalled to take command of the army of observation in eastern France. From 1860 till his death he was governor general of Algeria.