MILITARY PERSONNEL

Gaston Billotte

1875 - 1940

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Gaston-Henri Billotte (10 February 1875 – 23 May 1940) was a French military officer, remembered chiefly for his central role in the failure of the French Army to defeat the German invasion of France in May 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston Billotte has received more than 121,171 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Gaston Billotte is the 1,674th most popular military personnel (down from 1,482nd in 2019), the 4,031st most popular biography from France (down from 3,971st in 2019) and the 143rd most popular French Military Personnel.

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  • 56.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gaston Billotte ranks 1,674 out of 2,058. Before him are Maha Bandula, J. D. Tippit, J. Lawton Collins, Mikhail Devyataev, Wisimar, and Fidel Dávila Arrondo. After him are Fritz Julius Kuhn, Theodor Tolsdorff, Theodor Hoffmann, Woldemar Hägglund, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, and Marcellinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Gaston Billotte ranks 125. Before him are Juho Sunila, Beppo Levi, Albert Ayat, Joseph, Duke of Parma, Uemura Shōen, and Anna Tumarkin. After him are Federico Laredo Brú, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Thomas Xenakis, Oleksandr Murashko, Milan Neralić, and Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos. Among people deceased in 1940, Gaston Billotte ranks 125. Before him are Smedley Butler, Ljubomir Davidović, Charley Chase, Ameen Rihani, Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, and Pierre Marie. After him are Heinrich Kayser, Charles de Broqueville, Albert Richter, Phoebus Levene, Nikola Ivanov, and Adam Zamenhof.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaston Billotte ranks 4,031 out of 6,770. Before him are Armand Penverne (1926), Edmonde Charles-Roux (1920), Konrad Pellikan (1478), Lucien Démanet (1874), Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), and Maxime Maufra (1861). After him are Frédéric Kanouté (1977), Hortense Schneider (1833), Victor Laloux (1850), Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709), Patrick Devedjian (1944), and Charles Dupin (1784).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Gaston Billotte ranks 143. Before him are Erich Buschenhagen (1895), Jean Decoux (1884), Henri Dentz (1881), Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883), Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu (1889), and François Perrier (1833). After him are Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863), Fernand de Langle de Cary (1849), François Fournier-Sarlovèze (1773), Charles Leclerc (1772), Anton Grasser (1891), and Billy Mitchell (1879).

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