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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Maurice Gamelin

1872 - 1958

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Maurice Gustave Gamelin (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis ɡystav ɡamlɛ̃]; 20 September 1872 – 18 April 1958) was a French general. He is remembered for his disastrous command (until 17 May 1940) of the French military during the Battle of France in World War II and his steadfast defence of republican values. The Commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces at the start of World War II, Gamelin was viewed as a man with significant intellectual ability. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Gamelin has received more than 582,227 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Maurice Gamelin is the 246th most popular military personnel (up from 248th in 2019), the 700th most popular biography from France (up from 730th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Military Personnel.

Maurice Gamelin was a French general during World War II. He is most famous for his failure to stop the German invasion of France in 1940.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Maurice Gamelin ranks 246 out of 1,468. Before him are Kurt Meyer, Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Erich Hoepner, Hans von Seeckt, Muhammad bin Qasim, and Tokugawa Yoshinobu. After him are Werner Mölders, Pedro de Alvarado, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Zhang Liao, and Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Maurice Gamelin ranks 19. Before him are Djemal Pasha, Anton Denikin, Sergei Diaghilev, Richard Willstätter, Louis Blériot, and Charles Greeley Abbot. After him are Helena Rubinstein, Sri Aurobindo, Aubrey Beardsley, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Habibullah Khan, and Jože Plečnik. Among people deceased in 1958, Maurice Gamelin ranks 15. Before him are Maurice de Vlaminck, Faisal II of Iraq, Kurt Alder, Ernest Lawrence, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Juan Ramón Jiménez. After him are Milutin Milanković, G. E. Moore, Giacomo Balla, Rudolf von Laban, Georges Rouault, and Ole Kirk Christiansen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Gamelin ranks 700 out of 6,011. Before him are Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Roger Garaudy (1913), Catherine Labouré (1806), Jean Meslier (1664), François Guizot (1787), and Nadia Boulanger (1887). After him are Ausonius (310), Isabella of Angoulême (1188), Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279), Louise of Savoy (1476), Eugène Sue (1804), and Aristide Maillol (1861).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Maurice Gamelin ranks 26. Before him are Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769), Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (1766), Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (1611), and Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753). After him are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902), Oenomaus (-105), Nicolas Oudinot (1767), Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763), Robert Nivelle (1856), and François Christophe de Kellermann (1735).

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