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Gaston Billotte

1875 - 1940

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Gaston-Henri Billotte (10 February 1875 – 23 May 1940) was a French military officer, remembered chiefly for his central role in the failure of the French Army to defeat the German invasion of France in May 1940. He was killed in a car accident at the height of the battle. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaston Billotte is the 1,084th most popular military personnel (up from 1,674th in 2019), the 2,804th most popular biography from France (up from 4,031st in 2019) and the 105th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gaston Billotte ranks 1,084 out of 2,058Before him are Thomas Nelson Jr., Danylo Apostol, Max Pauly, Rasim Delić, August Schmidhuber, and Khiuaz Dospanova. After him are Emilio Eduardo Massera, Walter Heitz, Uzi Narkiss, Petar Bojović, Mikhail Katukov, and Siegfried von Feuchtwangen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Gaston Billotte ranks 82Before him are Robert Garrett, Carl Milles, William Hoyt, Princess Louise of Denmark, Laurence Doherty, and Paul Löbe. After him are Thomas Xenakis, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach, Eugen Schauman, Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, and Max Abraham. Among people deceased in 1940, Gaston Billotte ranks 86Before him are K. B. Hedgewar, Madeleine Astor, Cai Yuanpei, Arthur Rostron, Édouard Branly, and Yevhen Petrushevych. After him are Ben Turpin, Henri Desgrange, Ernst Weiss, Gjergj Fishta, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, and Raymond Smith Dugan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaston Billotte ranks 2,804 out of 6,770Before him are Alexandre Darracq (1855), John Francis Regis (1597), Élie, duc Decazes (1780), Michel Zevaco (1860), Albinus of Angers (470), and Gustave Aimard (1818). After him are Théophile de Viau (1590), Yves Allégret (1907), Amaury de Montfort (1192), Félix Ziem (1821), Georges Cadoudal (1771), and Emmanuel Frémiet (1824).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Gaston Billotte ranks 105Before him are Georges Guynemer (1894), Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (1740), Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (1762), Henri Mathias Berthelot (1861), Pierre Dupont de l'Étang (1765), and Wilhelm Falley (1897). After him are Jacques Massu (1908), Abraham Duquesne (1610), Claude Alexandre de Bonneval (1675), Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud (1798), Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765), and Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (1788).