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436 famous people found
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Charles de GAULLE
French army officer and statesman
1890 - 1970 -
Jean Marie CAUJOLLE
First disabled war veteran in France
1889 - 1928 -
Auguste Joseph RENAULT
Last French soldier killed during WWI
1897 - 1918 -
Ferdinand FOCH
French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, a military theorist and the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War
1851 - 1929 -
Philippe Pétain
French general who commanded the French Army in World War I and became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II
1856 - 1951 -
Alfred DREYFUS
French artillery officer who was convicted in 1894 on charges of treason
1859 - 1935 -
Maxime Weygand
French military commander in World War I and World War II
1867 - 1965 -
Robert NIVELLE
French artillery officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War
1856 - 1924 -
François DARLAN
French Admiral and political figure
1881 - 1942 -
Jérome BONAPARTE
King of Westphalia
1784 - 1860 -
Joseph DARNAND
French soldier, leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany and a Waffen-SS officer
1897 - 1945 -
Roland GARROS
French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot during World War I
1888 - 1918 -
Gustave FLOURENS
Communard, general in charge of the defense of Paris
1838 - 1871 -
Émile MUSELIER
French admiral
1882 - 1965 -
Maurice GAMELIN
French army general in the French Army
1872 - 1958 -
Louis BARTHAS
French cooper, author, socialist, and a veteran of the First World War
1879 - 1952 -
Antonin BROCARD
French general
1885 - 1950 -
Victor DE FAÿ DE LATOUR-MAUBOURG
French cavalry military commander
1768 - 1850 -
Henri Mathias BERTHELOT
French general during World War I
1861 - 1931 -
Philippe KIEFFER
French officer and political personality, and a hero of the Free French Forces
1899 - 1962