Patrice de Mac Mahonb, Count of Mac Mahon, 1st Duke of Magenta, Marshal of France, born June 13, 1808 at the Château de Sully (Saône-et-Loire) and died October 17, 1893 at Montcresson (Loiret), was a soldier and French statesman, President of the Republic from 1873 to 1879.
Made Marshal of France by Napoleon III, he was a senator and governor of Algeria during the Second Empire.