Charles Cousin-Montbauban

Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin-Montauban, (1796""1878) was a French general and statesman. He was appointed in 1858 to a command at home, and at the close of 1859 was selected to lead the French troops in the Anglo-French expedition to China. The allegation that he had acquired a vast fortune by the plunder of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing seems to have been without foundation.