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    Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espèrey (25 May 1856 – 8 July 1942) was a French general during World War I. As commander of the large Allied army...
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  • Franchet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adrien René Franchet (1834–1900), French botanist Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (1856–1942)...
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    businessman Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general during World War I Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (born 1942), chairman and CEO of IBM Louis Antoine Godey...
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    trains operated by the SNCF. The station is named after Marshal Louis Franchet d'Espèrey and is in the proximity of a school named after him. In 2018, the...
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    British ambassador)  France: November 1918 – January 1919: General Louis Franchet d'Esperey 30 January 1919 – December 1920: Albert Defrance 1921 – 22 October...
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  • fighting force that participated in World War I. Under its commander, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, it led the attacks which resulted in the victory at the First...
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    French troops on 1 November 1918, under the command of Marshal Louis Franchet d'Espèrey of France and Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia. Belgrade, devastated...
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    dismissed Lanrezac, commander of 5th army, and replaced him with Louis Franchet d'Espèrey. This was done despite the fact Lanrezac had been right, as Joffre...
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  • Belgrade on 13 November 1918. It was largely negotiated by General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, as the commanding officer of the Allied Army of the Orient, and...
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    (posthumous) Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934), Marshal of France in 1921 Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (1856–1942), Marshal of France in 1921 Marie Émile Fayolle (1852–1928)...
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    Marshal Joseph Joffre General Philippe Petain of France General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey of France General Sir Arthur Currie of Canada General Sir John...
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    the French Army still could not resist a German attack. Marshals Louis Franchet d'Espèrey and Hubert Lyautey (the latter died suddenly in July) added their...
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    continued Romanian advance to Budapest, with Generals Ferdinand Foch, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, and Henri Mathias Berthelot particularly in favor of this approach...
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    Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (17 November 1854 – 27 July 1934) was a French Army general and colonial administrator. After serving in Indochina and Madagascar...
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    Duvivier [fr] (1794–1848) Jean Baptiste Eblé (1758–1812) (heart) Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (1856–1942), Marshal of France Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans (1775–1852)...
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    governor of Paris and was appointed to the Supreme War Council Louis Franchet d'Espèrey – Commander of Army Group North 1916–1918, The Allied Army of the...
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    Guillaumat was recalled to Paris and replaced by General Franchet d'Espèrey. Although d'Espèrey urged an attack on the Bulgarian army, the French government...
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    Franchet d'Espèrey, on the British right, which envisaged the Sixth Army attacking north of the Marne. In the absence of news from Franchet d'Espèrey...
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    armies at the Salonika front (1917–1918) Divisional General/Marshal Louis Franchet d'Espèrey – Commander of the Allied armies at the Salonika front (1918) Brigadier...
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    Salonika front, where Babunski was ordained by French General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey after he and his men captured two German midget submarines and...
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    Franchet d’Esperey (Fifth Army, on the British right), which envisaged Sixth Army attacking north of the Marne. In the absence of news from Franchet d'Esperey...
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  • Schorr, Polish rabbi, historian, and politician (b. 1874) 1942 – Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Algerian-French general (b. 1856) 1942 – Refik Saydam, Turkish...
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    August of Saxe-Coburg and his wife Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis Philippe I of the French. Princess Maria Antonia Koháry was a Hungarian...
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  • Denard Alfred Dreyfus Charles François Dumouriez Ferdinand Foch Louis Franchet d'Espèrey Joseph Gallieni Maurice Gamelin Henri Gouraud Bertrand du Guesclin...
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    attendance were the Duke of Gloucester (King George V's son), Marshal Louis Franchet d'Espèrey of France, and the Prince of Udine representing King Victor Emmanuel...
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  • William Muldoon, American wrestler and trainer (d. 1933) 1856 – Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Algerian-French general (d. 1942) 1860 – James McKeen Cattell...
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    Kherson and Nikolayev (Ukrainian: Mykolaiv). Yet, on 2 April, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey ordered Philippe Henri Joseph d'Anselme to evacuate Odessa within...
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    hopes. In September 1918, the Allied forces under the command of Louis Franchet d'Espèrey mounted a sudden offensive at the Macedonian front, which proved...
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  • follow the author's spelling and use conventions (e.g. Franchet d'Esperey instead of Franchet d'Espèrey, Kluck for von Kluck), are not narrated in the third...
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    soldiers and officers. Initially he was interred in the crypt of the Saint-Louis Church, or Caveau des Gouverneurs. In 1937 his remains were transferred...
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