Joseph Maunoury

Michel-Joseph Maunoury (1914)

Michel-Joseph Maunoury (born December 17, 1847 in Maintenon , Eure-et-Loir department , † April 7, 1923 in Mer , Loir-et-Cher department ) was a French general and posthumous Marshal of France .

Life

Maunoury graduated from the École polytechnique in the final year 1867 and served as an artillery officer in the Franco-German War . In 1901 he was promoted to brigadier general. From 1906 he was in command of the École supérieure de guerre and from 1910 military governor of Paris and member of the Conseil supérieur de la guerre. In 1912, when he reached the age limit of 65, he was transferred to the reserve.

Reactivated in August 1914 at the age of 67, he took command of the Armée de Lorraine , with which he took part in the border battles ( Battle of Longwy ). At the end of August, from these troops and troops from the Paris military district, the 6th Army was formed under Maunoury's command. During the Battle of the Marne , parts of this army were thrown to the front in taxis by the commander of the Paris military district , Joseph Gallieni , in order to stop the German advance on Paris. This event went down in French and Parisian history as the "hero song of the taxis". Seriously wounded and half-blind on March 11, 1915, he ended his military career after briefly serving as governor of Paris.

His grave has been in the Paris Invalides since 1931 .

literature

• Charles-Armand Klein: Maréchal Maunoury. Le soldier exemplaire. Hugues de Froberville, Blois 1989, ISBN 2-907659-02-2 .
• Général Brécard (di: Charles-Theodore Brécard): Le Maréchal Maunoury. (1847-1923). Editions Berger-Levrault, Paris 1937.

Web links

Commons : Michel-Joseph Maunoury  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about Joseph Maunoury in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)