MILITARY PERSONNEL

Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque

1902 - 1947

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Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947) was a Free-French general during World War II. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal Leclerc or just Leclerc. The son of an aristocratic family, Hauteclocque graduated from the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the French military academy, in 1924. After service with the French Occupation of the Ruhr and in Morocco, he returned to Saint-Cyr as an instructor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque has received more than 751,551 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque is the 258th most popular military personnel (down from 252nd in 2019), the 770th most popular biography from France (down from 709th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Military Personnel.

Philippe leclerc de Hauteclocque was a French general who led the Free French Forces in World War II. He was most famous for leading the French First Army during the liberation of Paris in 1944.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ranks 258 out of 2,058. Before him are Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Karl Wolff, Italo Balbo, Ivan Bagramyan, Otto Günsche, and Otto Liman von Sanders. After him are Craterus, Hasdrubal Barca, Omar Bradley, Baiju, Zhang Liao, and Nikolai Vatutin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ranks 28. Before him are Ray Kroc, William Wyler, Josemaría Escrivá, Arne Jacobsen, Meyer Lansky, and Mikhail Suslov. After him are Fritz Strassmann, André Michel Lwoff, Alva Myrdal, Juscelino Kubitschek, Marcel Breuer, and Harold Lasswell. Among people deceased in 1947, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ranks 28. Before him are G. H. Hardy, Karl Mannheim, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Pierre Bonnard, Nicholas Roerich, and Black Dahlia. After him are Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Stanley Baldwin, Victor Lustig, Alexander Löhr, Qazi Muhammad, and Irving Fisher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ranks 770 out of 6,770. Before him are René Coty (1882), Roscellinus (1050), Mylène Demongeot (1935), Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788), Eugène Sue (1804), and Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540). After him are Eric Cantona (1966), Adélaïde of France (1732), Auguste Mariette (1821), Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), Frontinus (30), and Jacques Callot (1592).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ranks 28. Before him are Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (1766), Syagrius (430), Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (1611), Maurice Gamelin (1872), Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), and Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763). After him are Robert Nivelle (1856), Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40), Nicolas Oudinot (1767), Georges Picquart (1854), Charles François Dumouriez (1739), and Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847).

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