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Henri Giraud

1879 - 1949

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Henri Honoré Giraud (18 January 1879 – 11 March 1949) was a French military officer who was a leader of the Free French Forces during the Second World War until he was forced to retire in 1944.Born to an Alsatian family in Paris, Giraud graduated from the Saint-Cyr military academy and served in French North Africa. He was wounded and captured by the Germans during the First World War, but managed to escape from his prisoner-of-war camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Giraud has received more than 531,587 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Henri Giraud is the 370th most popular military personnel (down from 357th in 2019), the 1,029th most popular biography from France (up from 1,038th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Military Personnel.

Henri Giraud was a French general who was captured by the Germans in 1940. He was released in 1942 and became the commander of the French forces in North Africa. In 1943, he became the commander of the French forces in North Africa. He was captured by the Germans in 1944 and spent the rest of the war in a German prison.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Henri Giraud ranks 370 out of 1,468Before him are Kul Tigin, Georg von Frundsberg, Vasily Arkhipov, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, and Datis. After him are Choe Yeong, Luigi Cadorna, Viktor Lutze, Thomas the Slav, Bronislav Kaminski, and Alexander Samsonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Henri Giraud ranks 30Before him are Italo Gariboldi, An Jung-geun, Franz Reichelt, Victor Sjöström, Joseph Wirth, and Fritz Haarmann. After him are Frederick Griffith, Hans Lammers, E. M. Forster, Chen Duxiu, Pál Teleki, and Aleksandar Stamboliyski. Among people deceased in 1949, Henri Giraud ranks 26Before him are Klaus Mann, Nathuram Godse, Fyodor Tolbukhin, Marcel Cerdan, Angela Hitler, and Gustav Radbruch. After him are Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Aleksandra Ekster, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, László Rajk, Aino Aalto, and Solomon R. Guggenheim.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Giraud ranks 1,029 out of 6,011Before him are Jean de Joinville (1224), Claudine Auger (1941), Jules de Polignac (1780), Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (1895), Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine (1670), and Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850). After him are Jean-Louis Barrault (1910), Anne de Montmorency (1493), Lili Boulanger (1893), Madame de Brinvilliers (1630), Émile Gallé (1846), and Robert de Sorbon (1201).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Henri Giraud ranks 43Before him are Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40), Jean-Andoche Junot (1771), Pierre Augereau (1757), Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847), Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768), and Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762). After him are Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763), La Hire (1390), Georges Picquart (1854), Nicolas Chauvin (1790), Louis-Gabriel Suchet (1770), and François Achille Bazaine (1811).