Huntziger, Charles, born 25-06-1880 in Lesneven Finistère,
to Léon-Jacques Huntziger and his wife Marie-Elise, born Manière, Charles was married on 30-06-1909 in Paris with Marie-Alice Maurin (1887-1976). The couple had one son Jacques Huntziger 1912-1987. 
Charles graduated from the large École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
in 1900 and joined the colonial infantry. During World War I he served in the Middle Eastern theatre. He was Chief of Staff of operations of the Allied Expeditionary Force
. In 1918 he participated in the development of General Louis Franchet d’Espèrey’s
offensive against German and Bulgarian forces which would lead to Allied victory and the signing of the Armistice of Mudros in October 1918. In 1933, Huntziger was named Commander-in-Chief of the troops of the Levant. He then participated in the negotiations around the reattachment of the Sanjak of Alexandretta, then part of the French Mandate of Syria, to Turkey. He joined the Superior Council of War in 1938. During World War II, in 1939–1940, he initially commanded the Second French Army, then the Fourth Army Group in the Ardennes. On 15-03-1946, General Paul-André Doyen
was given the command of French Army’s IV Corps and shortly after he was made the Military Governor of Lyon, France, only to retire from the military later in 1946. After the war, Doyen was military governor of Lyon from 1945 to 1946. He was a witness for the prosecution during the trial of Marshal Henry Pétain.


Charles graduated from the large École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr






He fought in the Battle of France with the Second Army. On 16-06-1940 Premier Philippe Petain’s








The Armistice site
was demolished by the Germans on Hitler’s orders three days later. The carriage itself was taken to Berlin as a trophy of war, along with pieces of a large stone tablet. The Alsace-Lorraine Monument (depicting a German Eagle impaled by a sword) was also destroyed and all evidence of the site was obliterated, except notably the statue of Ferdinand Foch; Hitler ordered it to be left intact, so that it would be honoring only a wasteland. The railway carriage was later exhibited in Berlin, and then taken to Crawinkel in Thuringia in 1945, where it was destroyed by SS troops and the remains buried. After the war, the site and memorials were restored by German POW labour.




Death and burial ground of Huntziger, Charles Léon Clément.













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