page_title: Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Jean de Lattre de Tassigny / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Place du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny - Paris XVI
context_page_description: Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny, was a French army general during World War II and the First Indochina War. He was posthumously elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France.
  As an officer during World War I, he fought in combat in various battles, including Verdun and was wounded five times, surviving the war with 8 citations, the Legion of Honour and the Military Cross. During the Interwar period, he took part in campaigns in Morocco where he was wounded in action again. He then pursued a career in the general staff headquarters and as a commander of a regiment.
  Early in World War II, from May to June 1940, he was the youngest French general. He led his division during the Battle of France, at the battles of Rethel, Champagne-Ardenne, and Loire and until the Armistice of 22 June 1940. During the Vichy Regime, he remained in the Armistice Army, first in regional command posts, then as commander-in-chief of troops in Tunisia.
context_section_description: Many memorials have been erected to his memory, including a stele erected in the countryside near Manziat, l'Aigle.
  An annual military service, involving serving soldiers, veteran associations, and ceremonial carriage of the Marshal's baton, takes place at the graves of his family in his birthplace, Mouilleron-en-Pareds.
  The 1951–1953 promotion of de l'École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan bears his name.
  Various institutions, squares, boulevards, avenues and streets bear his name:
  A garrison at Metz
  A public school at la Roche-sur-Yon
  A regional establishment for adapted formations at Opme (in Romagnat); an old cadres institution constructed by him from 1940 to 1941
  The Sports Complex de Lattre at Aubagne
  A Metro station in Paris
  A bridge on the Rhône in Lyon
  A bridge on the Rhône at Vienne
  A bridge on the Seine between Croissy-sur-Seine and Bougival
  A bridge on the Seine at Melun
  A bridge on the Seine at Châtillon-sur-Seine
  A former bridge on the Han River in Da Nang (Tourane), Vietnam built in 1951
  A dock at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, as well as Bourges, at Sedan, at Manosque et at Sète
   
  a square in the 16th arrondissement of Paris; and squares in other cities and towns: Angers, Argentan, Auterive (Haute-Garonne), Besançon, Bizanos, Brive-la-Gaillarde, Brest, Carcassonne, Cavanac, Châteaumeillant, Chevilly-Larue, Colmar, Courcelles-Chaussy, Crémieu, Espéraza, Flers (Orne), Floing, Foulayronnes, Gagny, Gonesse, Hautmont, Jarny, La Crau, Lattes, Lavelanet, Le Thillot, Levallois-Perret, Les Herbiers, Libourne, Longwy, Maisons-Laffitte, Mantes-la-Jolie, Mollau, Montmorency (Val-d'Oise, Moulins, Mourenx, Nice, Pontarlier, Reims, Remiremont, Rethel, Roanne, Rouen, Saint-Andiol, Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups, Sarlat-la-Canéda, Schiltigheim, Sélestat, Strasbourg, Thann, Trouville-sur-Mer, Vanves, Vétraz-Monthoux, Violaines, Vitry-le-François, Voiron
  Several boulevards: In the cities of Fontenay-le-Comte, Château-d'Olonne, Chaumont, Chenôve, Dijon, Évry, Haguenau, Narbonne, Rodez, Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, Suresnes
  Several avenues: In the cities of d'Aix-en-Provence, Amiens, Angoulême, Arras, Aulnay-sous-Bois, Avignon, Bois-Colombes, Boissy-Saint-Léger, Bondy, Boulogne-Billancourt, Bordeaux, Cachan, Caen, Charenton-le-Pont, Choisy-le-Roi, Compiègne, Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne), Créteil, Fécamp, Fontenay-sous-Bois, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Le Pecq, Limoges, Marseille, Metz, Meudon, Moissac, Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Mont-Saint-Aignan, Montesson, Nancy, Niort, Orsay, Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère), Pontoise, Provins, Saint-Cloud, Saint-Denis, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sannois, Savigny-sur-Orge, Senlis, Tarascon, Thiais, Toulouse, Troyes, Villecresnes, Villiers-sur-Marne
  Several streets: at Alfortville, Blanquefort (Gironde)|Blanquefort, Calais, Cambrai, Chalon-sur-Saône, Chambon-sur-Cisse, Chelles, Clermont-Ferrand, Clichy, Corbeil-Essonnes, Ermont, Élancourt, Le Chesnay, Le Havre, Laon, Lille, Louviers, Maisons-Alfort, Massy (Essonne), Nantes, Neuilly-sur-Marne, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Plivot, Pont-de-Vaux, Rueil-Malmaison, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne), Sartrouville, Sens, Sucy-en-Brie, La Turballe, Versailles
  A grand alley at La Rochelle
  A roundabout at La Ciotat
  A square at Asnières
  A military garrison at Novo Selo in Kosovo since 2002
caption: The Place du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, Paris 16th arrondissement
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