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Berthier served as chief of staff to Napoleon Bonaparte from his first Italian campaign in 1796 until his first abdication in 1814. The operational efficiency of the Grande Armée owed much to his considerable administrative and organizational skills.
The Staff of the Grande Armée was known as the Imperial Headquarters and was divided into two major sections: Napoleon's Military Household and the Army General Headquarters. A third department dependent on the Imperial Headquarters was the office of the Intendant Général (Quartermaster General), providing the administrative staff of the army.
He was born at Montauban, and at the age of thirteen accompanied his father, Charles-Benoît, comte de Guibert (1715–1786), chief of staff to Maréchal de Broglie, throughout the Seven Years' War in Germany, and was awarded the cross of St Louis and then promoted to the rank of colonel in the expedition to Corsica (1767).
The Chief of the Military Staff of the President of the Republic (Chef d'état-major particulier du président de la République) is a role in the military and government of France, heading the president's military staff until the French Fifth Republic.
The chief of staff was assisted by an état-major-général, who ran the GQG general staff of around 50 officers and saw that the commander-in-chief's orders were carried out and two aides-majors with responsibilities for the individual departments of GQG. [4] [5] GQG was originally organised into four bureaux (or departments).
The Chief of the Army Staff (French: Chef d'état-major de l'armée de terre, [a] CEMAT) [2] is the military head of the French Army. [3] The chief directs the army staff and acts as the principal advisor to the Chief of the Defence Staff on subjects concerning the Army. [4]
Jean-Louis Georgelin and President Nicolas Sarkozy at Bastille Day 2008. After nine years at the Prytanée National Militaire, Georgelin joined Saint-Cyr in 1967. As a lieutenant, he was Chef de Section (Platoon Commander) at the École d'application de l'infanterie (Infantry School) from 1975 to 1976, responsible for the training of non-commissioned officers.
From 1984 to 1987, he exercised the functions of section chief of personnel, in the bureau of personnel-effectif at the general staff headquarters of the French Army. On 1 August 1987 he was the assistant general commanding officer of the 6th Light Armoured Division 6 e DLB, at Nîmes, and on 1 March 1988 he was admitted to the 1st section of ...