Jacques-Paul Faure

Jacques-Paul Faure (14 November 1869 – 24 August 1924) was an officer of the French Army. He studied in the French Ecole Polytechnique (promotion 1889[1]). He led the French Military Mission to Japan (1918-1919).[2]

Biography

Jacques-Paul Faure was born November 14, 1869 in Clermont-Ferrand. He joins the French Army in September 1887. He wasreceived in October, 1889 in the Ecole Polytechnique, the French leading mathematics military school. He started his career in artillery, but turned in 1912 into the Aeronautical Military Service. During the First World War, he worked in the French headquerters in Chalons-sur-Marne, then back in 1917 in the 207e artillery regiment. On 25 August 1918, he led the French Military Mission to Japan (1918-1919), where he became Colonel. During this mission, he organised the studies of Japanese pilots and engineers.[3]

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gollark: They might be measured a bit differently, or be outdated in some cases, but if someone presents a genuinely more accurate measurement of a constant or something it'll probably be accepted.
gollark: Politics makes all the human tribal instincts flare up, and brings in ideological stuff.
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References
  1. archives de l'École Polytechnique, Bibliothèque Centrale de l'École Polytechnique
  2. Christian Polak, in Soie et Lumières : l'âge d'or des échanges franco-japonais (des origines aux années 1950), Hachette, 2001
  3. Christian Polak, Sabre et Pinceau, par d'autres Français au Japon, Hachette, 2005


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