Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre

Raoul François Charles Le Mouton de Boisdeffre, or more commonly Raoul de Boisdeffre (6 February 1839, Alençon – 24 August 1919, Paris) was a French army general.

Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre

Biography

He studied at the College of Saint Cyr and at the Staff-College. During the Franco-Prussian War he was a major of cavalry and aide-de-camp of General Chanzy, and in 1882 was promoted to be colonel. In 1890 he became assistant chief-of-staff, and in 1893 chief-of-staff.[1]

At the trial of Émile Zola (1898), during the Dreyfus affair, he appeared full-uniformed in court, and in a much-applauded address to the jury, affirmed the existence of a third secret document incriminating the accused officer. When subsequently it transpired, through the confession of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry, that the document to which he had referred in good faith was a forgery, he tendered his resignation and retired from public life.[1][2] He retained a semi-official role only with respect to Russian officials, including Nicholas II, who received Boisdeffre twice when the Czar visited France.[2]

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References
  1. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Boisdeffre, Raoul François Charles le Mouton de" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
  2. French Wikipedia (oldid=126114386)
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