BERNARD, Simon, a celebrated French general of engineers, and aide-de-camp to Napoleon, was born at Dôle in 1779. Subsequently to the emperor's fall he emigrated to the United States, where he executed a variety of works, unequalled for magnitude, consisting of vast canals, numerous forts, and 1400 leagues of frontier fortifications. He returned to France, and in 1836 was secretary at war. He died in 1839.