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Joseph Joffre

1852 - 1931

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Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre , (12 January 1852 – 3 January 1931) was a French general who served as Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front from the start of World War I until the end of 1916. He is best known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in September 1914. His political position waned after unsuccessful offensives in 1915, the German attack on Verdun in 1916, and the disappointing results of the Anglo-French offensive on the Somme in 1916. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Joffre has received more than 878,925 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Joseph Joffre is the 169th most popular military personnel (up from 181st in 2019), the 517th most popular biography from France (up from 562nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Military Personnel.

Joseph Joffre was a French general who led the French army during World War I. He is most famous for commanding the French and British forces in the Battle of the Marne, which stopped the German advance on Paris.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Joseph Joffre ranks 169 out of 1,468Before him are Gertrude Bell, Andrey Vlasov, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Abraha, Pyotr Bagration, and Louis-Alexandre Berthier. After him are Ernst Busch, Joachim Peiper, Auguste de Marmont, Dietrich von Choltitz, George Armstrong Custer, and Paul Tibbets.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Joseph Joffre ranks 12Before him are Henri Moissan, Gojong of Korea, Albert A. Michelson, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, William Ramsay, and Francisco Tárrega. After him are Charles Taze Russell, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Alice Liddell, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, and Ferdinand von Lindemann. Among people deceased in 1931, Joseph Joffre ranks 15Before him are Arthur Schnitzler, Albert A. Michelson, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, George Herbert Mead, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, and Theo van Doesburg. After him are Carl Nielsen, F. W. Murnau, Bhagat Singh, Hermann Müller, Peter Kürten, and Eugène Ysaÿe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Joffre ranks 517 out of 6,011Before him are Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Annie Girardot (1931), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Antoine of Navarre (1518), and Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753). After him are Marcel Mauss (1872), Pauline Bonaparte (1780), Maurice Utrillo (1883), Luigi Lucheni (1873), Isabelle Huppert (1953), and Claude Chabrol (1930).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Joseph Joffre ranks 17Before him are Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), André Masséna (1758), Louis, Grand Condé (1621), Jean Lannes (1769), and Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753). After him are Auguste de Marmont (1774), Syagrius (430), Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769), Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), and Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (1766).