Marcel Bigeard (February 14, 1916 – June 18, 2010), personal radio call-sign "Bruno", was a French military officer and politician who fought in World...

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"...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

officer, Lieutenant Colonel Marcel Bigeard, and his 3rd Parachute Colonial Regiment (3e R.P.C) were entrusted with the task. Bigeard, with his extensive experience...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

List of French paratrooper units Pierre Segretain Pierre Jeanpierre Marcel Bigeard 35th Parachute Artillery Regiment Moroccan Division Lafayette Escadrille...

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

Guy Bazin de Bezon 6th Colonial Parachute Battalion (6th BPC) Major Marcel Bigeard 8th Shock Parachute Battalion (8th BPC) Major Pierre Tourret 5th Vietnamese...

awarded the Croix de Guerre by General Charles de Gaulle in March 1945. Marcel Bigeard, highly decorated French general and veteran of World War II, French...

of enlisted service; became a Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon. Marcel Bigeard – Incorporated in 1936, came back sergeant in 1940, participated in...

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...

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,...