Charles Rigault de Genouilly

Pierre-Louis-Charles Rigault de Genouilly (12 April 1807, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime – 4 May 1873, Barcelona) was a nineteenth-century French admiral. He fought with distinction in the Crimean War and the Second Opium War, but is chiefly remembered today for his command of French and Spanish forces during the opening phase of the Cochinchina campaign (1858–62), which inaugurated the French conquest of Vietnam.