The Loire army won the greatest success of the French during the entire war at Coulmiers, and followed this with another victorious action at Patay; in both engagements General Chanzy's corps performed the best.
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Born in Nouart in the department of (Ardennes), France, the son of a cavalry officer, Chanzy was educated at the naval school at Brest, but enlisted in the artillery, and, subsequently attending the military academy Saint Cyr, was commissioned in the Zouaves during 1843.
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He then served with generals Antoine Chanzy and Charles Denis Bourbaki, participated with the latter's disastrous retreat to Switzerland, and fought against the Paris Commune.