Date of birth:

April 18th, 1863 (Douai, France)

Date of death:

March 16th, 1924 (Toulon, France)

Nationality:

French (1870-present, Republic)

Général de division Maurice César Joseph Pellé

October 1882-July 1884: École Polytechnique
July 1884-July 1885: École d'application de l'Artillerie
1888–1889: École d'application de Cavallerie
September 1885: Lieutenant, platoon leader, 12e Régiment d'Artillerie
December 1888: instructor, École d'application de l'Artillerie
November 1891: 11e Régiment d'Artillerie
April 1892: deputy commander, 16e Régiment d'Artillerie
1900-1903: chief of staff, Colonel Joffre - campaign in Madagascar
1909-1912: Colonel, French military attaché in Berlin, Ambassador Jules Cambon
1913: transferred to Morocco, as chief of staff to General Hubert Lyautey
August 1914: commander, 2e Brigade Marocaine
September 1914: called by Joffre to serve in the Bureau for External Theatres of War of the Grand Quartier Général
December 1916: commander, 153e Division d'Infanterie - distinguished himself at the Second Battle of the Aisne
02nd May 1917: promoted to Général de division
May 1917-January 1919: commander, Ve Coprs d'Armée - German spring offensive and Hundred Days Offensive (Noyon, Marne and Argonne)
1919: leader of the French Military Mission to Czechoslovakia - first Chief of staff of the new Czechoslovak Army
1921: French High Commissioner for the Orient and Ambassador in Constantinople
1921: signed the Armistice of Mudanya for France
24th July 1923: leader of the French delegation at the Conference of Lausanne - Treaty of Lausanne defining the borders of the modern Turkish Republic

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