François Henri Eugène Daugier

François Henri Eugène Daugier (or François-Henri-Eugène d'Augier[1]) (12 September 1764, Courthezon – 12 April 1834, Paris) was a French naval officer and politician.

Daugier began his military career by joining the Gardes de la Marine in October 1782, serving on the corvette Flèche then on the Précieuse the following year.

Heavily depleted, his crews mutinied under the pretext of sailing to Brest to save the port from the same royalist influence as had allowed the British to take Toulon.

This was especially dangerous since his squadron was facing the enemy and so Daugier and his admiral met on one of the mutineers' ships, haranguing the crews and bringing order.

He supervised the training of the invasion fleet at Boulogne, before taking part in several battles against the British at Le Havre in June 1804.

When the popular revolt broke out in Madrid on 2 May 1808, Daugier and the Sailors received ordered to join Dupont's corps in Andalucía.

He was then made naval prefect of Lorient and was publicly told by Napoleon in the salle des maréchaux "I know how enemy generals praise you and the men of iron you command.

He was elected deputy for Morbihan department in 1815 and defended naval interests in that role as well as gaining preferment for those whose careers had declined in the final years of the First Empire.

In 1825 he was promoted to vice admiral, on 7 January 1827 he was made a member of the Conseil d'amirauté (Admiralty Council) and in November 1827 he was elected deputy for Avignon.