Jacques Faure (French Army officer)

Jacques Faure
Born(1904-03-02)2 March 1904
Bordeaux, France
Died9 April 1988(1988-04-09) (aged 84)
Paris, France
AllegianceFrance
Service / branchFrench Army
Years of service1927–1961
RankGeneral de division
Commands1er RCP
27e BIM
Battles / warsWorld War II
Algerian War
Jacques Faure flag bearer of the French delegation at the Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936.jpg

Jacques Marie Alfred Gaston Faure (2 March 1904 – 9 April 1988) was a French Army general and skier. He was the leader of the French national Olympic military patrol team in 1936 which placed sixth and in 1961 one of the masterminds of the Algiers putsch.


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