Louis Eugene Faucher (8 October 1874 – 30 March 1964) was a French general.
Faucher was a graduate of
École Polytechnique
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
, and his abilities earned him a professorship of general tactics and engineering at the
School of Applied Artillery
The School of Applied Artillery ( French: ''École d'application de l'artillerie'') is an applied military academy of the French Army. It is based in Draguignan.
Pre-Revolutionary history
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in
Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau (; ) is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located south-southeast of the centre of Paris. Fontainebleau is a sub-prefecture of the Seine-et-Marne department, and it is the seat of the ''arrondissement ...
, a position he held from 1901 to 1905. He joined the
war college at the ''École Militaire'' and from 1910 and 1914 pursued a career in Central Administration at the
Ministry of Defense.
During the
Interwar period
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he was head of the French military mission in
Czechoslovakia
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, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
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from 1926 to 1938. After
the Franco-British ultimatum to the Czechoslovak government, he presented his resignation to the French government on 23 September 1938, but remained in Czechoslovakia. During
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, Faucher was head of Region B (Southwest) of the ''
Armée secrète'', and was arrested by the
Gestapo
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The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organi ...
in 1944. Faucher remained incarcerated until the end of the war.
Faucher remained in Czechoslovakia after the war's end, and tried to revive the friendship between France and Czechoslovakia, but was forced to abandon his mission after February 1948, when the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia overthrew the government in a coup d'état. Thereafter, Faucher spent time in Prague helping exiles.
[''Dictionnaire de la Grande Guerre 1914-1918,'' François Cochet and Rémy Porte, ed. R. Laffont, 2008]
Faucher died in 1964; he was honored by the president of the Association of Czechoslovak Volunteers in France.
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French generals
1874 births
1964 deaths