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Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque

1902 - 1947

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Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947) was a Free-French general during World War II. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal Leclerc or just Leclerc. The son of an aristocratic family, Hauteclocque graduated from the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the French military academy, in 1924. After service with the French occupation of the Ruhr and in Morocco, he returned to Saint-Cyr as an instructor. He was awarded the croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures for leading goumiers in an attack on caves and ravines on Bou Amdoun on 11 August 1933. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque is the 314th most popular military personnel (down from 258th in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from France (down from 770th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Military Personnel.

Philippe leclerc de Hauteclocque was a French general who led the Free French Forces in World War II. He was most famous for leading the French First Army during the liberation of Paris in 1944.

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Among military personnels, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ranks 314 out of 2,058. Before him are Zhao Yun, Paul Tibbets, Orda Khan, Roman Shukhevych, Nicolas Oudinot, and Rochus Misch. After him are Vasily Blyukher, Henry Clinton, Zhang Liao, Alexander Löhr, Roger de Flor, and Ivan Paskevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ranks 39. Before him are Arne Jacobsen, Juscelino Kubitschek, Theodore Schultz, Reinhard Gehlen, Alexandre Kojève, and Émile Benveniste. After him are Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Günther Anders, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Harold Lasswell, Alexander Luria, and Prince George, Duke of Kent. Among people deceased in 1947, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ranks 32. Before him are Nicholas Roerich, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, G. H. Hardy, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Stanley Baldwin, and Victor Lustig. After him are Alexander Löhr, Annie S. D. Maunder, Qazi Muhammad, Georg von Trapp, Reginald Innes Pocock, and Pierre Janet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ranks 934 out of 6,770. Before him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Claude Lelouch (1937), François Clouet (1510), René Clément (1913), Léon Jouhaux (1879), and Rosa Bonheur (1822). After him are Charles Garnier (1825), Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011), and Lucile Randon (1904).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ranks 36. Before him are Louis-Gabriel Suchet (1770), Robert Nivelle (1856), Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763), François Achille Bazaine (1811), Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764), and Nicolas Oudinot (1767). After him are François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), Charles François Dumouriez (1739), Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889), François Joseph Lefebvre (1755), Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40), and Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763).

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