Gabriel Sabattier

Camille Ange Gabriel Sabattier (2 August 1892–1966) was a French general during World War II. The highest rank he attained was lieutenant-general.[1]

Major-General Sabattier was stationed in Indochina as the commander of the Tonkin Division when, on 9 March 1945, the Japanese staged a coup d'état and overthrew the French colonial government. Sabattier with about 2000 soldiers managed to beat a retreat into Nationalist China. There he was the highest-ranking military representative of the Provisional Government of the French Republic for three months.[2]

Sabattier wrote a memoire, Le destin de l'Indocine: souvenirs et documents, 1941–1951, that was published at Paris in 1952.

References

  1. ↑ Bruce M. Lockhart and William J. Duiker, Historical Dictionary of Vietnam (The Scarecrow Press, 2006), p. 332.
  2. ↑ Archimedes L. A. Patti, Why Viet Nam? Prelude to America's Albatross (University of California Press, 1980), p. 490.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.