Marcel Bigeard (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl biʒaʁ]; February 14, 1916 – June 18, 2010), personal radio call-sign "Bruno", was a French military officer...

Bigeard cap (French: casquette Bigeard) is a field cap worn by the French Army and several others. It was allegedly invented by French General Marcel...

Parachute Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Marcel Bigeard and FLN’s Commando 41 (‘Ali Khodja’) under Si Azzedine. Bigeard and his regiment were sent to hunt down...

confrontations in Timimoun between the French Armed Forces led by General Marcel Bigeard and native Méharistes whom defected over to the National Liberation...

against him on charges of torture, claiming they were amnestied. General Marcel Bigeard, who had denied employing torture for forty years, finally also admitted...

victims came to be known as "Bigeard's shrimp" (crevettes Bigeard), after one of the paratrooper commanders, Marcel Bigeard. During the Malagasy Uprising...

during the war. Marcel Bigeard's troops were accused of practicing "death flights", whose victims were called crevettes Bigeard (fr), "Bigeard shrimp". "Gégène"...

French geologist Marcel Bich (1914–1994), French manufacturer of ballpoint pens Marcel Bigeard (1916–2010), French Army general Marcel Bouyer (1920–2000)...

were called "crevettes Bigeard [fr]" 'Bigeard shrimp' after General Marcel Bigeard, who allegedly ordered the procedure. Bigeard put his victims' feet...

officered by many veterans of the Indochina War, including Colonels Marcel Bigeard, Roger Trinquier, Fossey-François and Yves Godard (chief of staff),...

personnel were actively involved in Vietnam in 1954. Jacques Massu (10e DP) Marcel Bigeard (6e BPC) Roger Trinquier (GCMA) Jean Sassi (GCMA) Pierre Schoendoerffer...

American film director Mamady Doumbouya, Guinean Colonel Dick Applegate Marcel Bigeard Christian de Castries Geneviève de Galard – nurse at the Battle of Dien...

Jacques Massu. Saadi Yacef has said that Mathieu was based more on Marcel Bigeard, although the character is also reminiscent of Roger Trinquier. Accused...

31 March, Langlais told Major Marcel Bigeard, who was leading the defense at Eliane 2, to fall back from Eliane 4. Bigeard refused, saying "As long as I...

The video footage was taken in El Biar at then Colonel Bigeard's command post. Marcel Bigeard personally interrogated Ben M'hidi, and according to him...

get Anthony Quinn for the lead. Quinn's character is loosely based on Marcel Bigeard, the actual commander in French Indochina, who led the unit that was...

since 2006 Saint Gerard of Toul, bishop Antoine Augustin Calmet, monk Marcel Bigeard, French Army General Anne-Laure Blin, politician Mickaël Causse, Neuroscientist...

unsatisfactory for many members of the French high command. General Marcel Bigeard was also against the idea of relying on foreign weapons; while visiting...

city after the capture of Ben M'hidi by paratroopers under Colonel Marcel Bigeard, Ben M'hidi was later killed while imprisoned by soldiers of Paul Aussaresses...

Women in Question. Routledge. p. 42. ISBN 9781134713301. "Prise de tête Marcel Bigeard, un soldat propre ?". L'Humanité (in French). 24 June 2000. Retrieved...

Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment of Fourcade and the 3rd RPC of colonel Bigeard later replaced by Colonel Trinquier. These five regiments patrolled on...

Albert Lenoir (1955) 3rd Colonial Parachute Regiment, 3e RPC Colonel Marcel Bigeard (1955–1958) Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Trinquier (April 1958 – December...

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and several of his subordinates, likely including Roger Trinquier and Marcel Bigeard. The Algiers putsch of 1958 began when the current government suggested...

Zerrouky, E. (24 June 2000). Le Hyaric, Patrick (ed.). "Prise de tête Marcel Bigeard, un soldat propre ?". L'Humanite (in French). Paris, France. Retrieved...

of the French Armed Forces were commanded by Jacques Massu, Buchond, Marcel Bigeard, Paul Aussaresses. Other Legion offensives in the mountains in 1959...

an honorary Légionnaire de 1ère classe alongside Lieutenant Colonel Marcel Bigeard, the commander of the 6th Colonial Parachute Battalion. After the induction...

Beausza, La formation de l'armee coloniale, Paris, L. Fournier et cie., 1939. Marcel Vigneras, Rearming the French, Office of the Chief of Military History,...

Pass of June and July 1954. In an interview taped in May 2004, General Marcel Bigeard (6th BPC) argues that "one of the deepest mistakes done by the French...

command the 10th Parachute Regiment. The character was modeled on Colonel Marcel Bigeard. The Centurions was highly successful in France at the time of its writing...