Gabriel Sabattier

Camille Ange Gabriel Sabattier (1892–1966) was a French general during World War II. The highest rank he attained was lieutenant-general.[1]

Major-General Sabattier was stationed in Indochina as the commander of the Tonkin Division when, on 9 March 1945, the Japanese staged a coup d'état and overthrew the French colonial government. Sabattier with about 2000 soldiers managed to beat a retreat into Nationalist China. There he was the highest-ranking military representative of the Provisional Government of the French Republic for three months.[2]

Sabattier wrote a memoire, Le destin de l'Indocine: souvenirs et documents, 1941–1951, that was published at Paris in 1952.

References

  1. ↑ Bruce M. Lockhart and William J. Duiker, Historical Dictionary of Vietnam (The Scarecrow Press, 2006), p. 332.
  2. ↑ Archimedes L. A. Patti, Why Viet Nam? Prelude to America's Albatross (University of California Press, 1980), p. 490.

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