Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800-1872) (12 sept. 1800 – 29 oct. 1872)
Description:
leading French chess master and an editor of the chess periodical Le Palamède. He played at the Café de la Régence, where he was a student of Alexandre Deschapelles.
He is best known for losing a match against Howard Staunton in 1843