MILITARY PERSONNEL

Christian de Castries

1902 - 1991

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Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix de Castries (11 August 1902 – 29 July 1991) was the French commander at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christian de Castries is the 618th most popular military personnel (down from 614th in 2019), the 1,706th most popular biography from France (down from 1,675th in 2019) and the 64th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Christian de Castries ranks 618 out of 2,058. Before him are Ettore Bastico, Henri Gatien Bertrand, Maarten Tromp, Müezzinzade Ali Pasha, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, and Charles Sweeney. After him are Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, Frederick Browning, Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Yoshijirō Umezu, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, and Adem Jashari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Christian de Castries ranks 71. Before him are Kirill Moskalenko, Léon M'ba, Anatole Litvak, Marcel Aymé, Richard Rodgers, and Ion Gheorghe Maurer. After him are Pascual Jordan, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Takeichi Nishi, Rafael Alberti, Maurice Duruflé, and Alfredo Binda. Among people deceased in 1991, Christian de Castries ranks 58. Before him are Gene Tierney, James Irwin, Lee Remick, Princess Ileana of Romania, Ernst Krenek, and Dead. After him are Henri de Lubac, William Heinesen, Shapour Bakhtiar, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Aladár Gerevich, and Robert Maxwell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Christian de Castries ranks 1,706 out of 6,770. Before him are Édouard Roche (1820), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Roger Ducos (1747), Marie de Gournay (1565), Léon Werth (1878), and Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675). After him are Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (1756), Joseph Bédier (1864), Marcel Renault (1872), Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay (1740), Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489), and Anna de Noailles (1876).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Christian de Castries ranks 64. Before him are Oenomaus (-105), Aegidius (450), Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1476), Georges Picquart (1854), Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754), and Henri Gatien Bertrand (1773). After him are Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489), Walter Krüger (1890), Maurice Sarrail (1856), Marie-Pierre Kœnig (1898), Bob Denard (1929), and Joseph Gallieni (1849).

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