Background
BOISSIEU, Alain Henri Paul Marie-Joseph de was born on July 5, 1914 in Chartres. Son of Henri de Boissieu Dean de Luigne and Marguerite Froger de Mauny.
BOISSIEU, Alain Henri Paul Marie-Joseph de was born on July 5, 1914 in Chartres. Son of Henri de Boissieu Dean de Luigne and Marguerite Froger de Mauny.
Saint-Cyr Mil. Academy.
Joined Free French Forces 1941. Captain 1942; Staff, High Commissioner in Indian Ocean 1944-1945. Maj. 1945, Lieutenant-Colonel 1953.
Commdg. Officer 4th Regiment of Chasseurs, Algeria 1956-1958. Colonel 1958; Chief Mil. Staff, High Commissioner in Algeria 1958.
Chief of Staff Armoured Directorate 1959. Commdg. Officer 2nd Armoured Brigade 1962. Brigadier- General 1964.
Commdg. General Saint-Cyr Mil. Academy, and Ecole Mil. Inter-Armes de Coetquidan 1964-1967.
Commdg. General 7th Division 1967. Maj.-General 1968; Inspector of Armour 1969. Lieutenant-General 1970.
Army Council 1971.
Married Elizabeth de Gaulle, daughter of General Charles de Gaulle, in 1946.