Gaston Moch

Gaston Moch (6 March 1859 – 3 July 1935) was the secretary of the

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''Centra Oficejo'' and a member of the ''Lingva Komitato''. Moch was born in

Saint-Cyr-l'École Saint-Cyr-l'École () is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It used to host the training school for officers of the French army, the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM), which w ...

Yvelines Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.Col. Jules Moch, co-founder of "

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" during the time when French Jews were entering the upper ranks of the French Army in the 19th century. During

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, Gaston would reach the rank of captain. He was also a supportive advocate toward the later release of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus in The Dreyfus Affair trial, in which Dreyfus was falsely accused and sentenced for treasonous acts, aggravated by growing

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in France. Coincidentally, Moch and Dreyfus were both born and died in the same year. He was also the Father of French Minister-Statesman, Jules S. Moch 1859 births 1935 deaths People from Saint-Cyr-l'École 19th-century French Jews French military personnel of World War I {{France-linguist-stub