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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 maintain French Algeria 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 392,310 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 20 in 2019). Raoul Salan is the 686th most popular military personnel (down from 623rd in 2019), the 1,851st most popular biography from France (down from 1,669th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Raoul Salan ranks 686 out of 2,058. Before him are Grigory Kulik, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Roza Shanina, Rostam Farrokhzad, Hans Langsdorff, and Mark W. Clark. After him are Maximilian von Prittwitz, Kemal Reis, Hermocrates, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, and Nobutake Kondō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Raoul Salan ranks 73. Before him are Aksel Sandemose, Yaakov Dori, Erwin Bowien, Adam Rainer, Emma Morano, and Marcel Achard. After him are Artur da Costa e Silva, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Hayato Ikeda, Irving Thalberg, and Gustav Ucicky. Among people deceased in 1984, Raoul Salan ranks 61. Before him are Rodrigo Lara, Count Basie, Andy Kaufman, Marcel Janco, Souvanna Phouma, and Mark W. Clark. After him are Janet Gaynor, He Zizhen, Eduardo De Filippo, Ernesto Mascheroni, Richard Basehart, and José Mauro de Vasconcelos.

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In France

Among people born in France, Raoul Salan ranks 1,851 out of 6,770. Before him are Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency (1594), Michel Bouquet (1925), Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (1645), Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767), Charles Dupuy (1851), and Pierre Beauchamp (1631). After him are Camille Doncieux (1847), Le Pétomane (1857), Étienne Méhul (1763), Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692), Pierre Bergé (1930), and Liane de Pougy (1869).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Raoul Salan ranks 73. Before him are Tarrare (1772), Charles Huntziger (1880), Maurice Sarrail (1856), Heinz Harmel (1906), Jean-Andoche Junot (1771), and Marie-Pierre Kœnig (1898). After him are Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768), Jules Brunet (1838), Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712), Jean II Le Maingre (1366), William Iron Arm (1010), and François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg (1628).

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