Edmond Jurien de La Gravière

Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (19 November 1812 in Brest, Finistère – 5 March 1892) was a French admiral, son of Admiral Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière, who served through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and was a peer of France under Louis-Philippe.

He was promoted to be rear-admiral on 1 December 1855, and appointed to the command of a squadron in the Adriatic in 1859, when he absolutely sealed the Austrian ports with a close blockade.

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 he had command of the French Mediterranean fleet, and in 1871 he was appointed director of charts.

As having commanded in chief before the enemy, the age-limit was waived in his favor, and he was continued on the active list.

[1] He was an author of voluminous works on naval history and biography, most of which first appeared in the Revue des deux mondes.