MILITARY PERSONNEL

Maurice Sarrail

1856 - 1929

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Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail (6 April 1856 – 23 March 1929) was a French general of the First World War. Sarrail's openly socialist political connections made him a rarity amongst the Catholics, conservatives and monarchists who dominated the French Army officer corps under the Third Republic before the war, and were the main reason why he was appointed to command at Salonika. At the start of the war, Sarrail commanded VI Corps then Third Army in the Ardennes and around Verdun, where his army played an important role in the final stages of the First Battle of the Marne and where he took the credit for holding Verdun (later the site of an important battle in 1916). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Sarrail has received more than 116,322 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Maurice Sarrail is the 660th most popular military personnel (up from 811th in 2019), the 1,790th most popular biography from France (up from 2,160th in 2019) and the 69th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Maurice Sarrail ranks 660 out of 2,058. Before him are Yoshijirō Umezu, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Hua Xiong, Charles Huntziger, and Pang De. After him are Wei Qing, Heinz Harmel, Werner Kempf, Jean-Andoche Junot, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., and Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Maurice Sarrail ranks 37. Before him are Stepa Stepanović, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Sergei Taneyev, Hara Takashi, Naftali Herz Imber, and Henri-Edmond Cross. After him are Émile Picard, Pedro Lascuráin, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Carl David Tolmé Runge, and Matthias Zurbriggen. Among people deceased in 1929, Maurice Sarrail ranks 40. Before him are Liang Qichao, Tanaka Giichi, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Oldfield Thomas, La Goulue, and Rainis. After him are Aletta Jacobs, Manuel Gomes da Costa, Enrico Ferri, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, Mahidol Adulyadej, and Jacek Malczewski.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Sarrail ranks 1,790 out of 6,770. Before him are Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (1711), Yo-Yo Ma (1955), John I, Duke of Alençon (1385), Theobald V, Count of Blois (1130), Charles Huntziger (1880), and Jules Dupré (1811). After him are John III, Duke of Bavaria (1374), Raël (1946), Felice Borel (1914), Marguerite Perey (1909), Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840), and Heinz Harmel (1906).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Maurice Sarrail ranks 69. Before him are Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle (1775), Christian de Castries (1902), Hubert Lyautey (1854), Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier (1742), Tarrare (1772), and Charles Huntziger (1880). After him are Heinz Harmel (1906), Jean-Andoche Junot (1771), Marie-Pierre Kœnig (1898), Raoul Salan (1899), Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768), and Jules Brunet (1838).

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