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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

1889 - 1952

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Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny (2 February 1889 – 11 January 1952) was a French général d'armée during World War II and the First Indochina War. He was posthumously elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France in 1952. As an officer during World War I, he fought in various battles, including at Verdun, and was wounded five times, surviving the war with eight citations, the Legion of Honour, and the Military Cross. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean de Lattre de Tassigny has received more than 566,195 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is the 347th most popular military personnel (up from 365th in 2019), the 951st most popular biography from France (up from 1,061st in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Military Personnel.

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was a French army officer who led the French Union Army in the First Indochina War. He was a hero of World War II and was made a Marshal of France.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ranks 347 out of 1,468Before him are Baiju, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Italo Gariboldi, Albert Pike, Hans-Valentin Hube, and Raimondo Montecuccoli. After him are Eduard Dietl, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Günther Prien, Jonas Savimbi, Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, and Jean-Andoche Junot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ranks 32Before him are Victor Fleming, Vasily Blyukher, Pitirim Sorokin, Edgar Adrian, Mercédès Jellinek, and Hans-Jürgen von Arnim. After him are Walter Lippmann, Abel Gance, Zalman Shazar, Taha Hussein, Günther Lütjens, and Philip Noel-Baker. Among people deceased in 1952, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ranks 22Before him are Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Ferenc Molnár, Paramahansa Yogananda, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jürgen Stroop, and Kiichiro Toyoda. After him are Robert Guérin, Charles Maurras, Hattie McDaniel, George Santayana, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, and Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ranks 951 out of 6,011Before him are Martin Bucer (1491), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Louise Michel (1830), Pierre Janet (1859), Marie of France, Countess of Champagne (1145), and Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818). After him are Thomas Couture (1815), Gilbert Bécaud (1927), Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), and Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ranks 36Before him are Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763), Robert Nivelle (1856), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), François Joseph Lefebvre (1755), Jacques MacDonald (1765), and Charles François Dumouriez (1739). After 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).