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Aldebert De Chambrun (1872–1962)
Aldebert de Chambrun (1872–1962) was a French general and a member of the Pineton de Chambrun aristocratic family. Early life Aldebert de Chambrun was born on July 23, 1872, in Washington, D.C. He graduated from the École Militaire in 1904. Career De Chambrun was as an artillery general in the French Army. He served in the Rif War in Morocco under Hubert Lyautey from the 1920s. He served in Bordeaux from 1932 to 1934. De Chambrun was appointed as the governor-general of the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1941. Personal life and death De Chambrun married Clara Longworth de Chambrun. They had a son, René de Chambrun, who married Josée Laval, the daughter of Vichy France Prime Minister Pierre Laval Pierre Jean Marie Laval (; 28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician. He served as Prime Minister of France three times: 1931–1932 and 1935–1936 during the Third Republic (France), Third Republic, and 1942–1944 during Vich .... De ...
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Charles-Adolphe De Chambrun
Charles-''Adolphe'' Pineton de Chambrun, Marquis of Chambrun (10 August 1831 – 13 September 1891) was a French historian, jurist and non-fiction writer. Early life Adolphe de Chambrun was born on 10 August 1831, in Marvejols, Lozère, France. He was the son of Marie Simone Victorine Virginie de Framond de La Framondie (b. ) and Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun (1774–1860), ''émigré'' of the Army of Condé, colonel of cavalry, deputy of Lozère. He was a first cousin of Joseph Dominique Aldebert de Chambrun, a prefect, deputy of Lozère, and senator, and Charles de Chambrun, a member of the Chamber of Deputies. Career De Chambrun was an historian and a jurist. He served as a legal attache at the Embassy of France, Washington, D.C. De Chambrun was the author of several books on the United States. Personal life and death On 8 June 1859 at the Église de la Madeleine in Paris, de Chambrun married Marie Henriette Hélène ''Marthe'' Tircuy de Corcelle, a daughter of ...
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American Hospital Of Paris
The American Hospital of Paris (''Hôpital américain de Paris''), founded in 1906, is a private, not-for-profit, community hospital certified under the French healthcare system. Located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, in the western suburbs of Paris, France, it has 187 surgical, medical, and obstetric beds. History The American Hospital of Paris was founded in 1906. Seven years later the United States Congress recognized the hospital under Title 36 of the United States Code on January 30, 1913. During World War I in March 1918, the French government decreed the hospital to be "an institution of public benefit", authorizing it to receive donations. The hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC), an independent organization that accredits hospitals in the United States; it is also accredited by France's Haute Autorité de santé (HAS). To this day, the American Hospital of Paris receives no government subsidies from either France or the United States operating solely on donation ...
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Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called "''Bordelais'' (masculine) or "''Bordelaises'' (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region. The city of Bordeaux proper had a population of 259,809 in 2020 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Bordeaux Functional area (France), metropolitan area had a population of 1,376,375 that same year (Jan. 2020 census), the sixth-most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, and Toulouse. Bordeaux and 27 suburban municipalities form the Bordeaux Métropole, Bordeaux Metropolis, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metropolitan authority now in charge of wi ...
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Hubert Lyautey
Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (17 November 1854 – 27 July 1934) was a French Army general and colonial administrator. After serving in Indochina and Madagascar, he became the first French Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925. In early 1917, he served briefly as Minister of War. From 1921, he was a Marshal of France. He was dubbed the ''French empire builder'' and in 1931 made the cover of ''Time (magazine), Time''. Lyautey was also the first one to use the term "Winning hearts and minds, hearts and minds" as part of his strategy to counter the Black Flag Army, Black Flags rebellion during the Tonkin campaign in 1885. Early life Lyautey was born in Nancy, France, Nancy, the capital of Lorraine (région), Lorraine. His father was a prosperous engineer and his grandfather a highly-decorated Napoleonic general. His mother was a Norman aristocrat, and Lyautey inherited many of her assumptions: monarchism, patriotism, Catholicism and the belief in the moral and political ...
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocco border, the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to Morocco–Western Sahara border, the south. Morocco also claims the Spain, Spanish Enclave and exclave, exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small Plazas de soberanía, Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. It has a population of approximately 37 million. Islam is both the official and predominant religion, while Arabic and Berber are the official languages. Additionally, French and the Moroccan dialect of Arabic are widely spoken. The culture of Morocco is a mix of Arab culture, Arab, Berbers, Berber, Culture of Africa, African and Culture of Europe, European cultures. Its capital is Rabat, while its largest city is Casablanca. Th ...
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