Charles Noguès
Charles Noguès (born August 13, 1876 in Monléon-Magnoac , † April 20, 1971 in Paris ) was a French Général d'armée .
Life
Charles Noguès graduated from the École Polytechnique and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1939 .
Noguès was Commander-in - Chief in French North Africa during World War II . He was appalled at the news that the French government was seeking a ceasefire with Germany. On June 17, 1940, he telegraphed to Bordeaux, where the government was then: “All of North Africa is appalled. The troops are ready to continue the fight if the government doesn't mind. "
In December 1942, Admiral François Darlan , a high representative of the Vichy regime , was killed in Algiers by the student Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle. The student was then executed as a murderer, and Noguès refused his petition for clemency. The French government rehabilitated the student in 1945 as a resistance fighter who acted “in the interests of the liberation of France”.
Charles Noguès resigned in June 1943 and moved to neutral Portugal. France sentenced him in absentia to 20 years of forced labor. When he returned to France in June 1954, he was arrested and tried, but acquitted.
Web links
- Newspaper article about Charles Noguès in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Noguès (1876-1971) . Retrieved February 8, 2019.
- ^ Charles Noguès .
- ^ Lacouture, Jean: De Gaulle, The Rebel 1890-1944 (English 1991, ISBN 978-0-841-90927-4 , pp. 229/230), original: De Gaulle, Le rebelle (French 1984)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noguès, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Général d'armée |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monléon-Magnoac |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1971 |
| Place of death | Paris |