inscriptions. On the same trip he visited Jerusalem and Italy. He ran for election to the senate in Nord as a republican on 30 January 1876 but was defeated. Faidherbe was elected on 5 January 1879 to the senate for the département of Nord. He resigned his seat prior to the end of his term in 1888. An enthusiastic geographer, historian, philologist and archaeologist, he wrote numerous works, including Collection des inscriptions numidiques (1870), La Campagne de l'armée du Nord (1871), Epigraphie phenicienne (1873), Essai sur la langue poul (1875), and Le Zénaga des tribus sénégalaises (1877), the last a study of the Berber language. He also wrote on the geography and history of Senegal and the Sahara. He was elected a senator in 1879, and, in spite of failing health, continued to the last a close student of his favorite subjects. Death Faidherbe died on 29 September 1889, his body receiving a public funeral. Statues and monuments to his memory were erected at Lille, Bapaume, Saint-Quentin and Saint-Louis, Senegal. Numerous streets are named after him, and also the subway station in Paris (Faidherbe-Chaligny). Works References Sources Further reading 1818 births 1889 deaths People from Lille French generals École Polytechnique alumni French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War People of French West Africa Colonial Governors of French Sénégal Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Grand Chanceliers of the Légion d'honneur Recipients of the Ordre du Nichan El-Anouar Senators of Nord (French department)