Antoine de La Torré
Antoine de La Torré (29 September 1787 – 8 February 1851) was a Spanish-born French officer who participated in the French conquest of Algeria. == Early life == According to the 1898 memoirs of François Certain de Canrobert, when he served under de La Torré in Algeria in 1842, it was rumoured that de La Torré was an illegitimate son of Manuel Godoy and that his irascibility was because he was educated as whipping boy for the future Ferdinand VII. Fighting for Spain in the Spanish War of Independence, de La Torré was taken prisoner by the French army after either the Battle of Tudela or the Battle of Ocaña.