Paul-François Grossetti

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Paul-François Grossetti

Paul-François Grossetti (* 10. September 1861 in Paris ; † 7. January 1918 ) was a French General de division in the First World War .

Life

Grossetti was born as the son of the father of the same name, who came from Grosseto-Prugna in Corsica . After attending school in Ajaccio , he entered the Saint-Cyr Military School in 1879 . From 1881 to 1885 he served as a Sous-lieutenant in the 2e regiment de Zouaves in Africa. He was then sent to Indochina, where he took part in the Tonkin campaign . He returned later to Africa and back was from 1890 to 1893 in France, where he supérieure École de guerre visited, which he called certification - Major graduated with honors. Another rise through the military hierarchy followed.

During the mobilization for World War I in 1914, Grossetti was Général de brigade and was appointed Chief of Staff of the 3rd Army under Pierre Ruffey . At the end of August 1914 he took over as commander of the 42nd division d'infanterie , with which he distinguished himself in the Battle of the Marne and in the " Race to the Sea ". At the beginning of November 1914, during the First Battle of Flanders , he took over the XVI. Army Corps. With this he took part in the battles in Champagne in the spring and autumn of 1915 and the following year in the Battle of Verdun . In April 1915 he was promoted to Général de division.

In February 1917 Grossetti was sent to Greece to succeed Paul Leblois in command of the Armée française d'Orient (AFO) on the Saloniki Front (under the command of Maurice Sarrails ). He led the AFO here in the unsuccessful spring offensive of 1917. He fell ill with dysentery in the same year and was sent back to France in September, where Charles Louis Jacques Régnault took up his post . He died in Paris in January 1918 at the age of 56. His grave is in the Père Lachaise cemetery .

A bust was erected for him in Grosseto-Prugna, and a bronze statue in Ajaccio (both made by the sculptor Henri Bouchard ). In 1932, a street was named after him in Paris's 16th arrondissement .

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SURNAME Grossetti, Paul-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1918
Place of death Paris