Marcel Carpentier, the Glossary
Marcel Maurice Carpentier (2 March 1895 – 14 September 1977) was a French Army general who served in World War I, World War II and First Indochina War.[1]
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24 relations: Army general (France), École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, Battle of Route Coloniale 4, Charles de Gaulle, Europe, First Indochina War, France, Free France, French Army, French Expeditionary Corps (1943–44), French Far East Expeditionary Corps, French Indochina, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Legion of Honour, Levant, Marseille, Mettray, NATO, North Africa, Tunisia, Vichy France, World War I, World War II, 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division.
- Military personnel from Marseille
Army general (France)
Army general (Général d'armée) is the highest active military rank of the French Army and the National Gendarmerie.
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École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
The École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM, literally the "Special Military School of Saint-Cyr") is a French military academy, and is often referred to as Saint-Cyr.
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Battle of Route Coloniale 4
The Battle of Route Coloniale 4, also called the Autumn-Winter Border Campaign (Chiến Dịch Biên Giới Thu Đông) by the Viet Minh, was a battle of the First Indochina War.
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Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. Marcel Carpentier and Charles de Gaulle are French generals and French military personnel of World War II.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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First Indochina War
The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally as the French-Indochina War) was fought between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and their respective allies, from 19 December 1946 until 20 July 1954.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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Free France
Free France (France libre) was a political entity claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic during World War II.
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French Army
The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (Armée de terre), is the principal land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, French Air and Space Force, and the National Gendarmerie.
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French Expeditionary Corps (1943–44)
The French Expeditionary Corps (Corps Expéditionnaire Français, CEF), also known as the French Expeditionary Corps in Italy (Corps Expéditionaire Français en Italie, CEFI.), was an expeditionary force of the French Liberation Army.
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French Far East Expeditionary Corps
The French Far East Expeditionary Corps (Corps Expéditionnaire Français en Extrême-Orient, CEFEO) was a colonial expeditionary force of the French Union Army that was initially formed in French Indochina in 1945 during the Pacific War.
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French Indochina
French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1946 as the French Union, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Mainland Southeast Asia until its end in 1954. It comprised Cambodia, Laos (from 1899), the Chinese territory of Guangzhouwan (from 1898 until 1945), and the Vietnamese regions of Tonkin in the north, Annam in the centre, and Cochinchina in the south.
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Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny (2 February 1889 – 11 January 1952) was a French général d'armée during World War II and the First Indochina War. Marcel Carpentier and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny are French military personnel of World War I, French military personnel of World War II and French military personnel of the First Indochina War.
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Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.
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Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
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Marseille
Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
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Mettray
Mettray is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
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Vichy France
Vichy France (Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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2nd Moroccan Infantry Division
The 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division (2e Division d'Infanterie Marocaine, 2e DIM) was an infantry division of the Army of Africa (Armée d'Afrique) which participated in World War II.
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See also
Military personnel from Marseille
- Alain Alivon
- Bernard Barrera
- Charles Nollet
- Chevalier Paul
- Claude Matthieu, Count Gardane
- Henri-César de Castellane-Majastre
- Jean Alfred Fraissinet
- Jean-Joseph Roux
- Josep Almudéver Mateu
- Marcel Carpentier
- Nicolas Roze (chevalier)
- Pierre Blancard
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Carpentier
Also known as Marcel-Maurice Carpentier.