Grégoire-Gaspard-Félix Coffinières de Nordeck

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Grégoire-Gaspard-Félix Coffinières de Nordeck

1811–1887

A French army officer, engineer, and writer, he lived through some of the most turbulent decades of 19th-century France and later wrote in his own defense after the fall of Metz. His life connects military service, public works, and the political upheavals of his time.

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Het land der Bagas en de Rio-Nuñez

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by Grégoire-Gaspard-Félix Coffinières de Nordeck

About the author

Born in 1811 in Castelnaudary, Grégoire-Gaspard-Félix Coffinières de Nordeck was a French general and engineer. Records from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and library catalogs identify him as the author of works including Capitulation de Metz: réponse du général Coffinières de Nordeck à ses détracteurs, published after the Franco-Prussian War.

A surviving military profile describes him as having trained at the École polytechnique before pursuing a career in the French army. That combination of technical education and military command helps explain why he is remembered both as an officer and as a figure linked to engineering and administration.

He died in 1887. Although he is not widely known today, the sources that remain show a man closely tied to the major institutions and crises of 19th-century France, and to the written record of its wars.