Louis Pichot de Champfleury


Louis Pichot de Champfleury
Born December 20, 1954
France
Allegiance  France
Service/branch French Army
French Foreign Legion
Years of service 1974 - present
Rank Général de division
Commands held 4th Foreign Regiment 4e RE
Commandement de la Légion Étrangère

Louis Pichot de Champfleury is a Général de division of the French Army and Commandant of the French Foreign Legion.[1]

Military career

Louis was admitted to Saint-Cyr on September 1974, promotion « Lieutenant Darthenay ». Sous-lieutenant on August 8, 1976, he chose at his sortie to serve in the metropolis infantry option ALAT and joined on September 1976, the school of infantry application.

Lieutenant on August 1, 1977, he was assigned the 2nd Foreign Regiment 2e RE at Bonifacio as a combat section chief (French: chef de section) and participated to a turning company at Mayotte and to Operation Tacaud in Tchad.

On September 1979, he joined the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment 2e REP in quality of combat section chief, then ordinary officer the following year.

In June 1981, he was assigned to the 5e RMP, in quality of detachment chief regimental security officer. He was promoted to captain on August 1, 1981.

Following his end of tour, he joined in August 1982 the 4th Foreign Regiment 4e RE. Platoon chief of the 1st degree of preparatory technical certificate, he passed to assistant (French: adjoint), the assumed the commandment of this unit on July 1984 after having undergone the infantry captain course from August to December 1983.

In August 1986, he assumed the simultaneous functions of assistant chief of the instruction bureau and high conduit officer at the second operational center of the general staff headquarters merged of the EAI/14th Light Armored Division. He joined the a functional bureau during last year as a quality operation officer. He was nominated as Chef de batailllon on July 1, 1987.

He was admitted as a quality candidate to the 103rd promotion at the superior war school in Paris on September 1989. Designated to follow this course in Great Britain, he was issued a diploma from the Camberley Staff College in 1990.

On June 1991, he occupied the functions of bureau chief of SIRPA at Paris.

Lieutenant-colonel on July 1, 1991.

On July 1993, he joined Canada to assume the post of course director of the command and staff headquarters college of the Canadian Armed Forces in Toronto. Upon his return, in September 1995, he was assigned to the EMAT at Paris. He was in charge of responses to parliamentary inquiries and follow-ups of the accounting audit courts as an officer editor at the planning finance bureau.

On August 2, 1997, he was designated as the regimental commander of the 4th Foreign Regiment 4e RE. Colonel on October 1 199. During two years, he ensured, the increase composition of the future 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment 2e REG by creating two companies while leading the creation of a new instruction center destined to the formation of legionnaires at the corps of the regiment's formation.

In August 1999, he was assigned at Aubagne in quality as a chief in the general staff headquarters of the French Foreign Legion (French: Etat-major du Commandement de la Légion Étrangère, COMLE), a post which he left on July 2001 to join his new affection in Paris, in order to assumed the task functions of the assistant chief bureau of AC-RS of the DPMAT.

Général de brigade on July 16, 2006, he assumed the command of the Legion on the same date.

Military governor of Marseille and officer general of the southern defense zone as of July 2, 2009.

He was admitted in the 2nd section of officers generals on August 31, 2011 and promoted to Général de division on the same date.

Recognitions and Honors

References

  1. Division General Commandant of the French Foreign Legion, L'Etat-major du COMLE (Commandement de la Légion Étrangère), Les Chefs COMLE

Sources

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