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Georges Picquart

1854 - 1914

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Marie-Georges Picquart (6 September 1854 – 19 January 1914) was a French Army officer and Minister of War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Picquart has received more than 406,963 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Georges Picquart is the 292nd most popular military personnel (up from 386th in 2019), the 858th most popular biography from France (up from 1,074th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Military Personnel.

Georges Picquart was a French army officer who became famous for his role in the Dreyfus Affair. He was an artillery officer who was assigned to the Statistical Section of the General Staff, an intelligence office that collected and analyzed information about France's enemies. In 1894, Major Henry discovered a letter from an agent of the German military intelligence service, saying that the Germans had a spy in the French army. The spy was soon identified as Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer. Picquart was appointed to head the investigation of Dreyfus, and he found evidence that Dreyfus was innocent and that the real spy was someone else.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Georges Picquart ranks 292 out of 2,058. Before him are Maurice de Saxe, Juan Pujol García, Gerhard Barkhorn, Bahram Chobin, Wang Jian, and Jiang Wei. After him are Xiahou Dun, Uqba ibn Nafi, Jonas Savimbi, Karl-Otto Koch, Charles François Dumouriez, and Alois Brunner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Georges Picquart ranks 13. Before him are Paul Ehrlich, Karl Kautsky, Henri La Fontaine, James George Frazer, Paul Sabatier, and Milan I of Serbia. After him are George Eastman, Albert Edelfelt, Johannes Rydberg, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul Natorp, and Léo Taxil. Among people deceased in 1914, Georges Picquart ranks 17. Before him are Georg Trakl, Jean Jaurès, Ismail Gaspirali, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, August Weismann, and August Macke. After him are Eduard Suess, Ambrose Bierce, Maximilian von Spee, Alexander Samsonov, Alphonse Bertillon, and Charles Péguy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Picquart ranks 858 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Janssen (1824), Bruno Cremer (1929), Alain-René Lesage (1668), Léon Gambetta (1838), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), and Emmanuelle Riva (1927). After him are Françoise Dorléac (1942), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824), Alfred de Vigny (1797), Louis Desaix (1768), Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (1838), and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Georges Picquart ranks 32. Before him are Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763), Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902), Robert Nivelle (1856), Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40), and Nicolas Oudinot (1767). After him are Charles François Dumouriez (1739), Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847), Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764), and Henri Giraud (1879).

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