Joseph-François Poeymirau (8 November 1869 – 22 February 1924) was a French general.
Childhood
Poeymirau was born in
Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pau (; ; ) is a Communes of France, commune overlooking the Pyrenees, the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Departments of France, department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regions of France, region of Southwestern France.
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on 8 November 1869 and was the son of André Adolphe Poeymirau, a businessman, and his wife Delphine Rocacher. He studied at the
Collège Stanislas de Paris
The Collège Stanislas de Paris (), colloquially known as Stan, is a private Catholic school in Paris, situated on " Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs" in the 6th arrondissement. It has more than 3,000 students, from preschool to '' classes préparatoir ...
, then the
Military School of Saint-Cyr Coetquidan before being accepted to the War College.
French conquest of Morocco
Poeymirau commanded 30,000 men and reported initial success in his 1920 expeditions.
References
1869 births
1924 deaths
French generals
People from Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
French Army generals of World War I
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