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Louis Joseph de Bourbon Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé Bourbon prince who commanded the émigré Army of Condé Military command · Army of Condé 1736–1818
Louis XVI Louis XVI French king deposed and tried during the Revolution Monarchs and royalty · French monarchy state institutions 1754–1793
Charles X Charles Philippe, comte d’Artois Count of Artois who led émigré royalism during the Revolution Monarchs and royalty · French monarchy state institutions 1757–1836
Jacques Cathelineau Jacques Cathelineau First generalissimo of the Vendéan insurgency Military command · Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée) 1759–1793
François de Charette François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie Royalist commander who led guerrilla war in the Lower Vendée Military command · Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée) 1763–1796
Jean Joseph Amable Humbert Jean Joseph Amable Humbert French revolutionary general, commander of the 1798 Irish expedition Military command · French First Republic state institutions 1767–1823
Charlotte Corday Charlotte Corday Norman noble and Girondin sympathizer who assassinated Marat Social movements and organizing 1768–1793
Henri de La Rochejaquelein Henri de La Rochejaquelein Young noble officer elected generalissimo of the Vendéan army Military command · Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée) 1772–1794
Adolphe Thiers Adolphe Thiers July Monarchy premier who as chief executive in 1871 crushed the Paris Commune and became the Third Republic’s first president Scholarship and theory · Independent activity 1797–1877
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
Léon Daudet Léon Daudet The voice of Action Française, the polemicist who pushed a scandal from the page into the street day after day Literature and arts 1867–1942
Maxime Weygand Maxime Weygand From Foch's brilliant staff officer to a general of defeat and accommodation Military command · France state institutions 1867–1965
Charles Maurras Charles Maurras The brain of Action Française, the royalist theorist who denied the republic itself in the name of integral nationalism Political and party leadership · Action Française 1868–1952
François Coty François Coty The perfume magnate who bought both the far-right leagues and a mass newspaper Industry and production 1874–1934
Jean Chiappe Jean Chiappe The Paris prefect of police, hard on the left and indulgent to the leagues, whose dismissal lit the fuse of 6 February Security, intelligence and policing · France state institutions 1878–1940
François de La Rocque François de La Rocque The colonel of the Croix-de-Feu who turned his columns away from the Chamber Political and party leadership 1885–1946
Pierre Taittinger Pierre Taittinger The deputy who founded the Jeunesses Patriotes, holding a street force and a seat in the Chamber at once Political and party leadership 1887–1965
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
Jacques Doriot Jacques Doriot The Saint-Denis Communist who demanded the popular front first and ended a fascist Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF) 1898–1945
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
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
René Bousquet René Bousquet Vichy police chief who negotiated with the occupier Security, intelligence and policing · France state institutions 1909–1993