Antoine Béthouart [SEP] conflict
Antoine Béthouart
Marie Émile Antoine Béthouart (17 December 1889 – 17 October 1982) was a French Army general who served during World War I and World War II.
Born in Dole, Jura in the Jura Mountains, Béthouart graduated from Saint-Cyr military academy and served as a platoon leader in the 159th Alpine Infantry Regiment during World War I. After the First World War, he served as an advisor to the Royal Yugoslav Army and was named an instructor at the French High Mountain Military School.
Promoted to Colonel
of French occupation forces in Austria, and then as the High Commissioner for France in Austria between 1946 and 1950.
Béthouart subsequently served as a senateur for overseas French citizens from 1955 until 1971. He died in Fréjus on the 17 October 1982, and was buried in Rue.
In June 2003, amid pomp and ceremony, a bridge was named for him in Innsbruck.
External links.
- Antoine Béthouart, biography on the website of the "Ordre de la Libération"
- Page at generals.dk