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 2^e 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 2^e REP in quality of combat section chief, then ordinary officer the following year.

In June 1981, he was assigned to the 5^e 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 4^e 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 4^e RE. Colonel on October 1 199. During two years, he ensured, the increase composition of the future 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment 2^e 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

• Officier of the Légion d'honneur
• Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur
• Chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite
• Croix de la Valeur militaire (cited at the orders of the brigade)
• Croix du combatant
• Medaille d'Outre-Mer (agrafe « Tchad »)
• Médaille de la Défense nationale

References

Sources

• Répertoire des chefs de corps
• Centre de documentation de la Légion étrangère
• Répertoire des citations (BCAAM)

Foreign Legion Command French Foreign Legion
Honneur et Fidélité History of the French Foreign Legion Foreign Legion Pioneers (Pionniers) List of French paratrooper units Képi Blanc (publication)
Current Foreign Legion Units	Administrative Communal Depot of the Foreign Regiments 1st Foreign Regiment Foreign Legion Command Foreign Legion Recruiting Group Infantry & Parachute Infantry 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte Cavalry 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment Engineer & Parachute Engineer 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment Training 4th Foreign Regiment Jungle Training Center Combat Training Center at Arta Beach
Defunct Foreign Legion Units	Administrative and Training Communal Depot of the Foreign Regiments Parachute Parachute Company of the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion 2nd Foreign Parachute Battalion 3rd Foreign Parachute Battalion Foreign Air Supply Company 3rd Foreign Parachute Regiment 1st Foreign Parachute Heavy Mortar Company Infantry 1st Foreign Infantry Regiment 1st Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment 2nd Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment 3rd Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment 4th Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment/Garibaldi Legion 1st Marching Regiment of the 2nd Foreign Regiment 2nd Marching Regiment of the 2nd Foreign Regiment Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion 5th Foreign Infantry Regiment 6th Foreign Infantry Regiment 11th Foreign Infantry Regiment 12th Foreign Infantry Regiment 21st Marching Regiment of Foreign Volunteers 22nd Marching Regiment of Foreign Volunteers 23rd Marching Regiment of Foreign Volunteers 1st Mounted Saharan Company of the Legion 2nd Mounted Saharan Company of the Legion 3rd Mounted Saharan Company of the Legion 4th Mounted Saharan Company of the Legion 1st Mounted Saharan Squadron of the Foreign Legion Cavalry 2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment 97th Reconnaissance Group of the Infantry Division Transport Armored Train of the Foreign Legion Disciplinary Disciplinary Company of the Foreign Regiments in the Far East Foreign Legion Brigades 31st Brigade (France)