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Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque [b] [c] (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947) was a Free-French general during World War II. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal Leclerc or just Leclerc .
In the early morning of 23 August, Leclerc's 2e DB left the south of Argentan on its march to Paris, a march which was slowed by poor road conditions, French crowds, and fierce combat near Paris. On 24 August, General Leclerc sent a small advance party to enter the city, with the message that the Second Armored would be there the following day.
Charles Leclerc was born on 17 March 1772 in Pontoise, Île-de-France.In 1791, he volunteered to join the French Royal Army, serving as a second lieutenant in the 12th Regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval before becoming an aide-de-camp to Jean François Cornu de La Poype.
Action Française is a French royalist and nationalist political movement that restructured in 1947 after its pre-war iteration was disbanded following the Liberation of France. Revived under the leadership of Maurice Pujo , it launched the newspaper Aspects de la France and the counter-revolutionary organization Restauration Nationale .
The 2 e DFL of General Leclerc would follow the same procedure. After the reunification of the two French forces, on 1 August 1943, the division was officially designated as 1st Motorized Infantry Division ( French : 1 re Division Motorisée d'Infanterie, 1 re DMI ) due to its integration in the French Expeditionary Corps in Italy.
Leclerc Evolution is a French prototype of the enhanced fourth-generation main battle tank (MBT) developed and manufactured by the KNDS France. The project was presented during the Eurosatory 2024. [ 1 ]
The French 2nd Armored Division, tip of the spear of the Free French forces that had participated in the Normandy Campaign and had liberated Paris on 25 August 1944, went on to liberate Strasbourg on 22 November 1944, thus fulfilling the Oath of Kufra made by General Leclerc almost four years earlier.
Action Française (French pronunciation: [aksjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz], AF; English: French Action) was a French far-right monarchist and nationalist political movement. The name was also given to a journal associated with the movement, L'Action Française , sold by its own youth organization, the Camelots du Roi .