Henri Honoré Giraud (French: [ɑ̃ʁi ɔnɔʁe ʒiʁo]; 18 January 1879 – 11 March 1949) was a French military officer who was a leader of the Free French Forces...

executions. Marie-Louise Giraud (17 November 1903 – 30 July 1943) was one of the last women to be executed in France. Giraud was convicted in Vichy France...

Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), better known as Philippe Pétain (French: [filip petɛ̃]) and Marshal Pétain (French:...

could assure safe passage for the landing forces, namely Henri Giraud and François Darlan. Giraud was contacted first, and spoke with General Dwight Eisenhower...

Franklin Roosevelt insisted for the post go to General Henri Giraud instead. In January 1943, Giraud and General Charles de Gaulle became co-presidents of...

1603 by Henri IV, it was completed in 1621. Since 1808, it has been part of the Prytanée National Militaire, where the ashes of the hearts of Henri IV and...

Pierre-Bloch, and Louis Vallon Upon the reconciliation between General Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle in 1943, the French national liberation committee...

ceased to exist in 1943 when the Free French Forces merged with General Giraud's forces. The name was still in common use however, until the liberation...

legal order of Vichy. Nogues immediately rejected the clemency petition. Henri Giraud, who was then head of military justice as Commander-in-chief, refused...

provisional government of Free France formed by the French generals Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle to provide united leadership, organize and coordinate...

General Henri Giraud, the candidate preferred by the US who wrongly suspected de Gaulle of being a British puppet) and then—after squeezing out Giraud by force...

the command of the 60th Infantry Division of the Seventh Army (under Henri Giraud), headquartered at the castle of Esquelbecq, located in the north of...

flew south to Africa, where he reported to Général de brigade Henri Giraud on 11 July. Giraud sent him into the field as a liaison officer with a goum. He...

Goncourt, making her the first non-European recipient. In 1994, the Collège Militaire Royal theatre group performed in a play by Maillet both at CMR and at...

originally from Nancy, and of Elisabeth Giraud, from an old and notable Provençal family, whose father Louis Giraud, notary, had married Honorine Courmes...

it merged with the French Civil and Military High Command headed by Henri Giraud, becoming the new "French Committee of National Liberation". De Gaulle...

the war, and recognised joint leadership of North Africa by Giraud and de Gaulle. Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle then became co-presidents of the French...

Forces of the Interior under the authority of the Free French Generals Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle and their body, the Comité Français de Libération...

before being put on leave on 1 March 1943. de La Font was appointed by Henri Giraud to succeed Aubert Frère as the leader of the ORA after Frère was arrested...

learning of the Appeal of 18 June, he joined the Resistance and was sent by Henri Giraud to relieve two of the four first agents from Operation Pearl Harbour...

Departments (Commandement Militaire de Department) Military Command in Department of Saône-et-Loire (Commandament Militaire de Saune-et-Loire) Military...

made his case against Moulin very "dubious". Henri-Christian Giraud, the grandson of General Henri Giraud (who had been outmaneuvered by de Gaulle for...

family in Diourbel. He completed his secondary studies at the Prytanée militaire of Saint-Louis. He moved to France to study in CPGE (classe préparatoire...

this role, Juin joined General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Général d'armée Henri Giraud, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and...

Dome of Les Invalides (1677–1706) by Jules Hardouin-Mansart The École Militaire (1751–1780) by Ange-Jacques Gabriel The Arc de Triomphe (1806–1836) by...

Boris Holban, founder of the network FTP-MOI in March 1942; and General Henri Giraud on April 17, 1942. Some clandestine combatants survived the war as part...

behalf of the French Resistance; he was involved in the escape of General Henri Giraud. He was the immediate superior of François Mitterrand. Later, on 12 September...

in January 1943 when the Army of Africa (Armée d'Afrique) led by General Giraud was combined with the Free French Forces of General de Gaulle. The AFL participated...

June 29, 2013. Lundi 24 juin 2013 : la Vendée Militaire en deuil, blog de l'association Vendée Militaire. Duchesse de Sabran-Pontevès (May 1987). Bon sang...

After the death of his mother in 1838 he inherited the property of Maine-Giraud, near Angoulême, where it was said that he had withdrawn to his 'ivory tower'...