Graviere

Graviere, Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de LA, French seaman and historian, was born at Brest in 1812, entered the navy in 1828, and became a captain in 1850, a rear-admiral in 1855, and a vice-admiral in 1862. Besides seeing some war service, he was for many years vice-president of the Higher Commission of Naval Archives. His leanings, indeed, were chiefly historical, and his works on naval history gained him election in 1888 to the Academie Francaise. He died in 1892.