Officers

Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority. Commissioned officers derive authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, hold a commission charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position...

• Jacques Faure
• Maurice Gamelin
  Maurice Gamelin
  Maurice Gustave Gamelin was a French general. Gamelin is best remembered for his unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France and his steadfast defense of republican values....
  
  
• Yves Godard
  Yves Godard (French officer)
  Yves Godard was a French Army officer who fought in World War II, First Indochina War and Algerian War. A graduate of Saint-Cyr and Chasseur Alpin, he served as a ski instructor in Poland during 1939, but after World War II begun he returned to France...
  
  
• André Lalande
  André Lalande (soldier)
  André Lalande was an officer in the Chasseurs Alpins and in the French Foreign Legion.He was a Breton who studied at the French military academy, the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr from 1931 to 1933 and was posted 2nd Lieutenant at Metz.In 1937 he requested a transfer to the 6th Bataillon...
  
  
• Nicolas Le Nen
  Nicolas Le Nen
  Nicolas Le Nen is a French Army officer. Since 2007, he has commanded the 27ème bataillon de chasseurs alpins, and heads the Groupement tactique interarmes de Kapisa.-Biography:Le Nen joined Saint-Cyr in 1986, and chose Infantry after graduation...
  
  
• Émile Paganon
  Émile Paganon
  Émile Paganon is a former French military officer of the chasseurs alpins and skier. He was leader of the national Olympic military patrol team in 1948 which placed fifth.Paganon was born in Thônes. He was married to Herminie with one son...
  
  
• Philippe Pétain
  Philippe Pétain
  Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...
  
  
• Marcel Pourchier
  Marcel Pourchier
  André Eugène Marcel Pourchier was a French military officer whose last rank was Lieutenant-Colonel.- Biography :...
  
  
• Bernard Saint-Hillier
  Bernard Saint-Hillier
  Bernard Saint-Hillier was a French general.Saint-Hillier graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1933 and was affected to the 11th Chasseurs alpins Battalion. In 1938, he joined the French Foreign Legion with the rank of captain...
  
  
• Jean Vallette d'Osia
  Jean Vallette d'Osia
  Jean Vallette d'Osia was a French officer best known for his action in the French Resistance during World War II in Haute-Savoie, notably supervising the liberation of Lyon....
  
  

Enlisted

Enlisted rank

An enlisted rank is, in most Militaries, any rank below a commissioned officer or warrant officer. The term can also be inclusive of non-commissioned officers...

• Caroline Aigle
  Caroline Aigle
  Commandant Caroline Aigle was a French aviatrix who achieved a historical first when, at the age of 25, she became the first woman fighter pilot in the French Air Force. Her promising military career was cut short by death from cancer seven years later...
  
  
• Ulysse Bozonnet
  Ulysse Bozonnet
  Ulysse Bozonnet is a former French mountain infantry soldier and skier.In the military rank of a Caporal-chef he was a member of the national Olympic military patrol team in 1948 which placed fifth in the powder. Leader of the team was Émile Paganon who was Bozonnet's platoon leader in World War...
  
  
• Marie Marvingt
  Marie Marvingt
  Marie Marvingt was a French athlete, mountaineer, and aviator, and the most decorated woman in the history of France. She won numerous prizes for her sporting achievements and was the first woman to climb many of the peaks in the French and Swiss Alps...
  
  
• Gilbert Morand
  Gilbert Morand
  Gilbert Morand was a French non-commissioned officer and skier.-Sports:Morand was born in the Jura department. In the military rank of a Caporal-chef he was a member of the national Olympic military patrol team in 1948 which placed fifth...
  
  
• Pierre Schoendoerffer
  Pierre Schoendoerffer
  Pierre Schoendoerffer is a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician and since 2001 the President of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.-Family:...
  
  
• Léon Weil
  Léon Weil
  Léon Roger Weil was one of the last two surviving veterans of the battle of Val-de-Marne in the First World War...