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Louis Faury (21 July 1874 – 14 January 1947) was a French military commander. In the 1920s he acted as a chief of the General Staff Academy in Poland. Well known to his Polish students under
Louis Faury (21 July 1874 – 14 January 1947) was a French military commander. In the 1920s he acted as a chief of the General Staff Academy in Poland. Well known to his Polish students under nickname
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''Papa Faury''. He was made General Officer
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commanding the 3rd Division in 1936. From 23 August 1939 until 17 September 1939, he led the French military mission in Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
(till Soviet invasion of Poland
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Second Polish Republic, Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Polan ...
).
He retired from the French Army later on in 1939. He was awarded as a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...
that same year.
Recommended literature
* Louis Faury ''La Pologne Terrassée'' in: ''Revue Historique de l’Armée'', IX nr 1 (1953), Paris 1953, p. 132–136.See also
*Western Betrayal
Western betrayal is the view that the United Kingdom, France and the United States failed to meet their legal, diplomatic, military and moral obligations to the Czechoslovakians and Poles before, during and after World War II. It also sometimes ...
for more info on the Saar Offensive.
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