Macmahon, Duke of Magenta, marshal of France, born at Sully, of Irish descent, second President of the third French republic from 1873 to 1879; distinguished himself in Algeria and at the Crimea, and took part in the Franco-German War to his defeat and capture (1808‒1893).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Maclise, Daniel * Macpherson, James