Bernard de Girard Haillan
Bernard de Girard Haillan( c.1535–1610) was a French historian.
Richard Fitz Pons
Richard Fitz Pons( 1080 – 1129) was an Anglo- Norman nobleman, active as a marcher lord on the border with Wales.
He is described as a follower of Bernard de Neufmarche, and probably first builder of Bronllys Castle.
He started construction at Llandovery Castle in 1116.
Charles Chanson
Charles Chanson (1902–1951) was the Commander of the French-Indo-Chinese forces in southern Vietnam during the First Indochina War.
Born on 18 February 1902 in Grenoble, France, Charles Marie Ferreol Chanson was educated at Ecole Polytechnique (entrance: 1922).
His father was General Henri Chanson and his great grandfather was General Achille Chanson.
All were artillery officers.
During World War II, Chanson he served in France during the Battle of France (1939–1940), in North Africa from 1941, and later with the general staff of U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Germany.
He was posted to Indochina in 1946 where he was Commander of the French-Indo-Chinese forces in South Viet Nam.
During his five years in Indochina, he was credited with the restoration of peace and security in southern Vietnam following the capitulation of the Japanese Forces in 1945 and the void left by the Allied forces.
Between 1950 and 1951, he worked closely with General Jean Marie de Lattre de Tassigny who commanded French troops in Indochina, providing troops to successfully defend northern Vietnam against the Viet Minh.
Chanson was killed on 31 July 1951 at Sadec (or Sa Đéc) in southern Vietnam, when a caodaist suicide bomber exploded a grenade.
Governor Thai Lap Thanh and the bomber also died in the explosion.
Bernard de Chalvron
Bernard de Chalvron was a French diplomat, political advisor and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny, (2 February 1889 – 11 January 1952) 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.
After the disembarking of Allied forces in North Africa, on 11 November 1942, the Germans invaded the free zone; de Lattre, Commander of the 16th Military Division at Montpellier, refused the orders not to fight the Germans and was the only active general to order his troops to oppose the invaders.
He was arrested but escaped and defected to Charles de Gaulle's Free France at the end of 1943.
From 1943 to 1945 he was one of the senior leaders of the Liberation Army, commanding the forces which landed in the South of France on 15 August 1944, then fought up to the Rivers Rhine and Danube.
He was the only French general of World War II to command large numbers of American troops, when the US XXI Corps was attached to his First Army during the battle of the Colmar Pocket.
He was also the French representative at Berlin on 8 May 1945, with Eisenhower, Zhukov and Montgomery.
Commander-in-Chief of French Forces in Germany in 1945, then Inspector General of the French Army, he was the vice-president of the Supreme War Council.
From 1948 to 1950 he served as Commander-in-chief of the Western Union's ground forces.
In 1951, he was the High Commissioner, commander-in-chief in Indochina and commander-in-chief of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps, winning several battles against the Việt Minh.
His only son was killed there, then illness forced him to return to Paris where he died of cancer in 1952.
He was elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France posthumously in 1952 during his state funeral.
Orlande de Lassus
Orlande de Lassus (also Roland de Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, Orlandus Lassus, Orlande de Lattre or Roland de Lattre; 1532, possibly 1530 – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance, chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish school, and considered to be one of the three most famous and influential musicians in Europe at the end of the 16th century (the other two being Palestrina and Victoria).
François de Linares
François Jean Antonin Gonzalez de Linarès( 7 July 1897 – 2 March 1956) was a French general who commanded forces in World War II under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and in Vietnam under General Raoul Salan.
Bernard de la Salle
Bernard de la Salle, was a French mercenary captain during the Hundred Years War.
His story is mentioned in the Chronicles of Froissart
At the beginning of his career, in 1359, Bernard de la Salle, also known as Bernardon de la Salle, was in the service of Jean de Grailly Captal de Buch.
On Monday, November 18, 1359, he climbed the castle of Clermont- en- Beauvaisis with steel grabs.
However, after the Treaty of Brétigny( 1360) He and his men found themselves umemployed and so become one of the 30 or so, so- called Tard- Venus bandits.
that ranged the French country side pillaging towns.
In 1368, he is still in France with Bérard d' Albret, Gaillard de la Motte, Bernard d' Eauze and Bour de Badefol.
In 1369, along with Bernard de Wisk and Hortingo de la Salle, he captured Belleperche Castle, where Isabella of Valois, Duchess of Bourbon) lived.
The castle was, however, besieged by the troops of the Dukes of Bourbon and Burgundy.
The Duke of Bourbon was her son, and Frossart tells us that the siege redoubt he organized was as strong and as well fortified as a good town might have been.
The" Free companies" in the castle were expelled, but they took the duchess with them as hostage.
Isabella was also mother- in- law of King Charles V of France, and remained a prisoner of Bernard de la Salle until 1372, when the king arranged for the ransom to be paid.
Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny
Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny (11 February 1928 – 30 May 1951) was a French Army officer, who fought during World War II and the First Indochina War.
Bernard de Lattre received several medals during his military career, including the Médaille militaire.
He was killed in action at the age of 23, fighting near Ninh Binh.
At the time of his death, his father, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, was the overall commander of French forces in Indochina.
Bernard's death received widespread newspaper coverage, with headlines drawing attention to the death of the son of a general.
His mother worked to preserve the memory of her son, as well as that of her more famous husband who died in 1952.
Their legacy includes an open-air memorial chapel and centre in Wildenstein, Alsace, France.
The death of Bernard de Lattre is mentioned in histories of the First Indochina War, and it has been compared to the deaths of other sons of generals and military leaders.
Marcel Carpentier
Marcel Maurice Carpentier( 2 March 1895 – 14 September 1977) was a French Army general who served in World War I, World War II and First Indochina War.
Born on 2 March 1895 in Marseille, he was the eldest son in his family.
He studied at the School of St Cyr.
In 1937 he was" Chef d'état- major"( chief of staff) of the" Commandant supérieur" of Levantine Troops.
From 1940- 1941 he served under Jean de Lattre de Tassigny as chief of staff of the commander in chief of North Africa at the headquarters of Vichy French forces in Tunisia.
In 1942 Carpentier joined General Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces, becoming chief of staff of the French Expeditionary Corps in 1943.
He continued in this post until 1944, when he became Commander of the 2nd Moroccan Division, with which he served until 1945.
After World War II he was in charge of France's 15 military region and was appointed Commandant supérieur of Tunisian Troops in 1946.
He was made Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honor in 1947.
In 1949 he was appointed commander- in- chief of French Union forces in Indochina, but in 1950 following the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Route Coloniale 4 he was replaced by de Lattre.
Carpentier then returned to Europe to become chief of staff assigned to NATO in 1951, serving there until 1952.
In 1956 he was appointed Inspector General of Infantry, eventually retiring as Commander in Chief of NATO for Central Europe.

Question: Where did Bernard De Lattre De Tassigny's father die?