Maurice Sarrail
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French general (1856–1929)
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Key facts
- President
- Gaston Doumergue
- Prime minister
- Édouard Herriot , Paul Painlevé , Aristide Briand
- Minister of the colonies
- Édouard Daladier , Andre Hesse , Léon Perrier
- Preceded by
- Maxime Weygand
- Succeeded by
- Henry de Jouvenel
- Minister of war
- Charles Nollet , Paul Painlevé , Édouard Daladier
- High commissioner
- Himself
- Chief of staff
- Joseph Joffre , Robert Nivelle , Philippe Pétain , Ferdinand Foch
- Born
- Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail , 6 April 1856, Carcassonne , France
- Died
- 23 March 1929 (1929-03-23) (aged 72), Paris, France
- Awards
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor , Médaille militaire , Croix de guerre 1914–1918
- Allegiance
- France
- Branch service
- French Army
- Years of service
- 1877–1925
- Rank
- Général de division
- Commands
- Third Army
- Battles wars
- World War I , Great Syrian Revolt
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maurice
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Carcassonne
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Educated at
- École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
- Languages spoken
- French
- Award
- Médaille militaire
- Conflict
- World War I
- Military branch
- French Army
- Military rank
- general
- Image
- Maurice Sarrail.jpg
- Work location
- Thessaloniki
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- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok
- Commons category
- Maurice Sarrail
- date of birth
- 1856-05-04
- date of death
- 1929-03-23
- name in native language
- Maurice-Paul-Emmanuel Sarrail
- allegiance
- French Army
- start of work period
- 1877-00-00
- archives at
- Defence Historical Service
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Encyclopedic overview
Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail (6 April 1856 – 23 March 1929) was a French general of the First World War. Sarrail's openly socialist political connections made him a rarity amongst the Catholics, conservatives and monarchists who dominated the French Army officer corps under the Third Republic before the war, and were the main reason why he was appointed to command at Salonika.
At the start of the war, Sarrail commanded VI Corps then Third Army in the Ardennes and around Verdun, where his army played an important role in the final stages of the First Battle of the Marne and where he took the credit for holding Verdun (later the site of an important battle in 1916). He was dismissed for poor leadership, amidst political uproar, in July 1915.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maurice Sarrail” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.