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Château de Pleuville

The chateau has a significant connection with maréchal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889-1952), who played a major role in 20^th century French history as one of the four supreme allied commanders in the closing stages of the war.

Henri de Gaulle

Among his students were his four sons, as well as Georges Bernanos and the future marshals Philippe Leclerc and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

Those marching in the funeral processions, following the gun carriage on which the tricolor-covered coffin was carried, included members of the French cabinet, judges, bishops, and Western military leaders.

Mouilleron-en-Pareds

It is known as the place of birth of Charles-Louis Largeteau (who contributed to the establishment of the Greenwich Meridian), Georges Clemenceau (head of the French Government during World War I and who signed the Treaty of Versailles with Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Woodrow Wilson) and Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (who participated in the liberation of France with the Allied forces in 1945).

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