Bigeard, Marcel

Marcel Bigeard
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natal chart English style (Equal houses)

Name	Bigeard, Marcel Gender: M
Birthname	Bigeard, Marcel Maurice
born on	14 February 1916 at 01:00 (= 01:00 AM )
Place	Toul, France, 48n41, 5e54
Timezone	GDT h1e (is daylight saving time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA
Astrology data	23°59' 27°26 Asc. 12°31'

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Biography

French military, a General and State Secretary of Defense. He was one of France's most decorated career soldiers, known as the "world's best paratrooper." Charles DeGaulle dubbed him a hero; he had been wounded several times and escaped from prisoner-of-war camps on three different occasions. He fought with French Resistance forces during WWII, parachuted with his troops into Indochina, fighting the Vietnamese in the early 1950s and led his paratroopers into Algiers in 1957.

He died at age 94 on June 18, 2010 in Toul, France.

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Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 18 June 2010 (Age 94)

Source Notes

Barbault quotes B.R. in CA No.67 and No.75

Categories

• Vocation : Military : Military career (General)

• Vocation : Politics : Government employee (State Secretary of Defence)

• Vocation : Military : Honors (Decorated paratrooper)

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs

• Vocation : Military : Combat

• Vocation : Military : POW/ MIA

• Vocation : Military : Wounded