biography
| name: |
Joffre, Joseph Jacques Césaire
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pronunciation:
[zhofruh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1852–1931)
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| biography:
| French general, born in Rivesaltes, S France. He entered the army in 1870, and rose to be French chief-of-staff (1914) and commander-in-chief (1915), carrying out a policy of attrition against the German invaders of France. He was made a marshal of France (1916) and president of the Allied War Council (1917). |
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