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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Raoul Salan

1899 - 1984

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Raoul Albin Louis Salan (French pronunciation: [ʁaul salɑ̃]; 10 June 1899 – 3 July 1984) was a French Army general and the founder of the Organisation armée secrète, a clandestine terrorist organisation that sought to defend the French colonial empire by preventing Algerian independence. He served as the fourth French commanding general during the First Indochina War. He was one of four retired generals who organized the 1961 Algiers Putsch operation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raoul Salan has received more than 352,657 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Raoul Salan is the 623rd most popular military personnel (down from 599th in 2019), the 1,675th most popular biography from France (up from 1,700th in 2019) and the 68th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Raoul Salan ranks 623 out of 1,468Before him are Zhuge Jin, Israel Tal, Werner Kempf, Casimir Pulaski, Giorgio Basta, and Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours. After him are Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Živojin Mišić, Takijirō Ōnishi, Artur Phleps, Ma Dai, and Sergei Skripal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Raoul Salan ranks 68Before him are Andrei Platonov, Aksel Sandemose, Franz Jonas, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Fritz Bayerlein, and Hans Jeschonnek. After him are Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Hayato Ikeda, Walter Lantz, Michał Kalecki, Adam Rainer, and Ida Kamińska. Among people deceased in 1984, Raoul Salan ranks 54Before him are Jiro Miyake, Count Basie, Hans Speidel, Fikret Amirov, Chaïm Perelman, and José Mauro de Vasconcelos. After him are Rodrigo Lara, Jerzy Popiełuszko, Eduardo De Filippo, Mark W. Clark, Walter Tevis, and Marcel Janco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Raoul Salan ranks 1,675 out of 6,011Before him are Jean Chapelain (1595), Berengar of Tours (998), Elliott Erwitt (1928), Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756), Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489), and Pierre Puget (1620). After him are Matilda of Boulogne (1103), Adhemar of Le Puy (1055), Natalia Pavlovna Paley (1905), Georges Delerue (1925), Christiane Martel (1936), and Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1674).

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