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Marie Victor Charles Maurice Duval [ 2 ] (1869-1958) is a French general whose name is associated with the First World War and with the highest bodies of French aeronautics. His username is Mauritius.
Born the In Bayonne, he is the son of General Duval – de Tulle – and Madame, born of Leigonye. He frequented the college of Jesuits of Reims, then, bachelor ès-lettres et-sciences, he graduated from higher studies of history and geography. On the military level, he trained in Saint-Cyr and at the Higher School of War.
Captain and patented staff in 1902, he was a battalion chief when war broke out. He passes colonel in , tenured in . During the champagne offensive in 1915 he was seriously injured. The same year he was the subject of a quote and promoted officer of the Legion of Honor.
With the rank of colonel he commands an infantry brigade and successively directs the staff of different armies ( WE It is Army, I re Army), then of the army group of the center of General Fayolle.
The He is appointed brigadier general and responsible, as a help-general, aeronautics, then operations to the large headquarters (CQG). In , it sets up the first air division in the world (600 fighter and bombing planes) [ 3 ] . He notably supports Louis Breguet and, making Breguet XIV his “Battle Horse”, the apparatus is ordered en masse [ 4 ] . Thanks to the support of the President of the Council Clemenceau and his former comrade in Saint-Cyr General Mordacq, Duval had all political and military support to carry out the creation of aeronautics during the war.
At the Peace Conference he chaired the Aeronautical Consultative Committee.
Already director of aeronautics since , he is responsible, by a decree of , “ensure the management of the general coordination body of aeronautics”. He thus becomes the supreme leader of everything concerning French aeronautics.
When he is admitted to retirement, he devoted himself to writing. Between the two world wars he collaborated on several major newspapers. In particular, he wrote in the illustration of An article entitled “The motorized war” which describes its vision of the impact of the engine and the caterpillar on the different components of a war: in recognition, during the attack, the maneuver, and with regard to supplies. In the part of the maneuver, it highlights the idea of a “mechanical maneuvering body”, combining power and speed, which is supported by an infantry on motorcycle and powerful aviation. It is a change compared to the classic doctrine which sees in the tanks a support for the infantry and not the reverse. The same idea will lead to Blitzkrieg a year later.
In civil society, he has held several positions, such as chairman of the board of directors of the Figaro . [ 5 ] .
General Duval married Mademoiselle Teisserenc. They had four children: Robert Duval (died in the field of honor), Marie-Thérèse Duval (wife Hugonneau Beaufet), Germaine Duval (wife Mathieu) and Henri Duval.
He holds numerous civil and military distinctions, French and foreign, including: officer of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of the Bath of the Order of Saint-Michel and Saint-Georges, Grand-Officer of the Crown Crown of Italy, the white eagle of Serbia, large necklace of the tower and the sword …
- The lessons of the Spanish War (Preface to General Weygand), Plon, 1938, 247 p
- The Spanish and the Spanish War , Lead, 1939, 237 p.
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- “General Duval. Director of aeronautics at the Ministry of War ”, in The Pays de France , n O 244, , p. 3
- « Duval, Marie Victor Charles Maurice », in Who are you? Directory of contemporaries. Biographical notices , C. Delagrave, 1924?, p. 266
- Marie-Odile Mergnac, “The Duval in History”, in Family names in France: stories and anecdotes , Archives & culture, 2000, p. 148
- Jean Vanwelkenhuyzen, The waste of the 1930s , Racine editions, Brussels, 2007, p. 251
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