Victor Louis Marie Lanrezac, Governor General of Pondicherry (1902 – 1904)
Lanrezac attended the military school at Saint-Cyr in 1869 but when the Franco-Prussian War started 1870, he was sent to fight as a lieutenant.
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Coming after criticism of the British in the memoirs of Huguet and Foch, the book was a great success, Harold Nicolson writing that he had especially enjoyed the "satirical" portrait of the "conceit(ed) ... arrogant and obese" Lanrezac.