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Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau

1851 - 1944

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Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (24 December 1851 – 19 March 1944) was a French military officer and Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces during the First World War. Elected deputy in 1919 and president of the Army Commission in the legislature, he then took the head of a confessional political movement, the Fédération Nationale Catholique. During the Second World War, he opposed Marshal Pétain and the Vichy regime and supported the French Resistance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau has received more than 117,489 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau is the 12,234th most popular politician (down from 11,581st in 2019), the 3,669th most popular biography from France (down from 3,441st in 2019) and the 780th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau ranks 12,234 out of 19,576Before him are José Joaquín de Olmedo, Dora Bakoyannis, Mikhail Pokrovsky, Nicolò Sagredo, Titus Herminius Aquilinus, and Al-Harith ibn Jabalah. After him are Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Gualberto Villarroel, William B. Travis, Karl Arnold, Mahmud Tarzi, and Kim Campbell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau ranks 59Before him are George Abraham Grierson, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Roque Sáenz Peña, Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Laza Lazarević, and Edward Robert Hughes. After him are Arnold Pick, Ernst Josephson, Andrei Zhelyabov, Julien Dupré, Václav Brožík, and Andrea Costa. Among people deceased in 1944, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau ranks 215Before him are Leonid Mandelstam, Andrey Toshev, Edith Durham, Aino Ackté, Adam von Trott zu Solz, and Dénes Kőnig. After him are Isabelino Gradín, Erich Marcks, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Tokutaro Ukon, and Maurice Paléologue.

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In France

Among people born in France, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau ranks 3,669 out of 6,770Before him are Pierre Montet (1885), Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury (1914), François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817), François Bordes (1919), and Theo Hernandez (1997). After him are Guy Ropartz (1864), Claude Fleury (1640), Gaston Rébuffat (1921), Charles Duclerc (1812), Eugène Belgrand (1810), and René Huyghe (1906).

Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau ranks 780Before him are Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1090), Cécilia Attias (1957), Jacques Soustelle (1912), Geoffrey I of Provence (1013), Gérard Larcher (1949), and Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury (1914). After him are Charles Duclerc (1812), Georges Leygues (1857), Boso, Margrave of Tuscany (885), Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne (1618), Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais (1000), and Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles (1759).