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Patrice de MacMahon Patrice de Mac Mahon Marshal captured at Sedan who led the Versailles army against the Paris Commune and became the president of “Moral Order” Military command · France state institutions 1808–1893
Gustave Paul Cluseret Gustave Paul Cluseret French soldier who served as the Paris Commune’s Delegate for War Military command · France state institutions 1823–1900
Louis Nathaniel Rossel Louis Rossel French army officer who served as the Paris Commune’s war delegate Military command · France state institutions 1844–1871
Ferdinand Foch Ferdinand Foch French marshal who as Allied supreme commander in 1918 led the counter-offensive and dictated the armistice Military command · France state institutions 1851–1929
Robert Nivelle Robert Nivelle French commander-in-chief whose failed offensive of 1917 brought on the army mutinies and his dismissal Military command · France state institutions 1856–1924
Philippe Pétain Philippe Pétain A marshal whose Verdun prestige ended in Vichy collaboration Military command · France state institutions 1856–1951
Maxime Weygand Maxime Weygand From Foch's brilliant staff officer to a general of defeat and accommodation Military command · France state institutions 1867–1965
Maurice Gamelin Maurice Gamelin A commander-in-chief caught between defensive doctrine and forward deployment Military command · France state institutions 1872–1958
Fernand Vix Fernand Vix French officer who headed the Entente military mission in Budapest and delivered the Vix note in March 1919 Military command · France state institutions 1876–1941
Robert Touchon Robert Touchon A French general whose 1940 command exposed the tension between mountain-war expertise and an old command system Military command · France state institutions 1878–1960
Charles Delestraint Charles Delestraint A tank-war innovator who became the Secret Army's first commander Military command · France state institutions 1879–1945
Charles Huntziger Charles Huntziger A general who embodied the military case for defeat and armistice Military command · France state institutions 1880–1941
Aimé Doumenc Joseph Édouard Aimé Doumenc Logistics, armor and the 1939 Moscow mission Military command · France state institutions 1880–1948
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Jean de Lattre de Tassigny The general who defied Vichy and led the Liberation Army Military command · France state institutions 1889–1952
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu Carmelite friar and Free French admiral whose Republic of Cochinchina as High Commissioner opened the road to war Military command · France state institutions 1889–1964
Henri Navarre Henri Navarre Last commander of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps, who chose to fortify Điện Biên Phủ and met defeat there in 1954 Military command · France state institutions 1898–1983
Raoul Salan Raoul Salan French commander in the First Indochina War and leader of the OAS. Military command · France state institutions 1899–1984
Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque Free French armoured commander Military command · France state institutions 1902–1947
Christian de Castries Christian de Castries French general who commanded the Điện Biên Phủ fortress in 1954 and was captured when it fell Military command · France state institutions 1902–1991
Henri Rol-Tanguy Henri Rol-Tanguy Communist Resistance leader who directed the Paris uprising Military command · France state institutions 1908–2002