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    André-Gaston Prételat (14 November 1874, Wassy, Champagne, France – 6 December 1969, Paris, France) was a general in the French Army. His first post,...
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  • south of Strasbourg, and controlled three armies. Général d'armée André-Gaston Prételat was Commander-in-Chief of the army group throughout its existence...
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    the Rhine, Moselle and Meuse rivers. On 9 June, Général d'Armée André-Gaston Prételat, commander of Groupe d'Armée 2, ordered the fluvial mines to be...
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    light of military exercises carried out in 1938. That year, General André-Gaston Prételat took command of manoeuvres which created a scenario whereby the...
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    arrived. In late September, Gamelin issued a directive to Général d'armée Gaston Billotte, commander of the 1st Army Group, ...assuring the integrity of...
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  • November – Georges Andrique, painter (died 1964) 14 November – André-Gaston Prételat, general (died 1969) 5 December – Henriette Caillaux, socialite...
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    which the French chief-of-staff of the Army of the Levant, General André-Gaston Prételat, found to be generally ineffective against small mobile rebel units...
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  • December – Didier Daurat, aviation pioneer (born 1891). 6 December – André-Gaston Prételat, general (born 1874). 7 December – Élisabeth d'Ayen, tennis player...
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    General Bourret, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat. The SF Haguenau was commanded by Commandant Laherre, then Lieutenant...
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    Charles Condé, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat. The SF Boulay was commanded by General Besse until late June 1940...
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  • General Réquin, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat. The SF Sarre was commanded by General Boucher until 2 January 1940...
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    General Bourret, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat. The SF Lower Rhine was commanded by General Pichon, then General...
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    Huntziger, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat. The SF Montmédy was commanded by General Burtaire, then General...
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    General Mariano Goybet General André Hartemann General Georges Journois General Raoul Magrin-Vernerey General André-Gaston Prételat General Jacques-Théodore...
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    General Bourret, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat. The SF Rohrbach was commanded by General Boutignon, then General...
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    Charles Condé, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat. The SF (secteur fortifiée) Thionville was commanded by General...
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    of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat. The SF Vosges was commanded by General Viellard, then Colonel André. The command post was at Baerenthal...
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    Charles Condé, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat. The SF Faulquemont was commanded by General Baudoin until 14 April...
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    Charles Condé, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat. The 42nd CAF was commanded by General Sivot, then General Renondeau...
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     16. Azan, Paul (1949). Franchet d'Espérey. Flammarion. p. 269. Prételat, André Gaston (1950). Le destin tragique de la ligne Maginot. Berger-Levrault...
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  • just four French divisions. Fighting continued in the east until General Prételat, commanding the French Second Army group, was forced by the armistice to...
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