Mariano Goybet

Mariano Goybet ( Mariano Francisco Julio Goybet , Saragossa the August 17th 1861 - 1943) is a Général French. He is large officer about the Légion of honor.

Childhood

Mariano Francisco Julio is born in Saragossa the August 17th 1861. He is baptized with Notre Dame del Pilar. He is the son of Pierre Jules Goybet, industrialist, and of Marie Bravais, niece of the physicist Auguste Bravais. His/her father is resulting from an old Savoyard family (14th century), which counts in particular in its rows of the lords of the manor of Yenne and the royal notaries combined with the best local nobility. He descends from Louis VIII by Artois, Grailly-Foy, Echalon, Gruel, Bavoz, Belly. A branch was anoblie in 1758 and bore the name of Goybet de Lutrin of Grilly. His/her paternal grandmother, Louise de Montgolfier, were the small niece of the famous inventors Joseph and Etienne de Montgolfier.

Pierre Jules (1823-1912), his father made his studies with the college of the Jesuits of Freiburg. He was taken along to 16 years by his uncle Augustin de Montgolfier in his factory of Bullfighter close to Saragossa where he introduced the manufacture of paper in Spain. He will direct then a building firm of steam engines close to Saragossa. Named Knight and member of the superior council of industry by the queen of Spain. He had received the rank of artillery lieutenant in the militia. Birth of Mariano to Saragossa in 1861.

The family returns to France in 1862 because of the health condition of the beautiful mother of Pierre Jules and remains some time with Annonay where was born Constance, then Pierre Jules is named principal Vocational school of Martinière in Lyon where it remained 16 years placed in the establishment. Henri and Victor were born there.

Studies

Mariano studied close to, with Écully and the large college of Lyon where it was accepted with the baccalaureat with the mention well. It was then the street of the Stations (??) and it is received in 1882 with the Carthusian monks of Lyon. It was sergeant there.

First years of service

Mariano Goybet continues its studies at the Military academy of Saint-Cyr military school until in 1884, date on which it leaves 21e the body of the Infanterie. It is promoted Sous-lieutenant and is affected with the 2 {{E}} regiment of Algerian riflemen. He marries the girl of his general, Marguerite Lespieau.

He is then named lieutenant with the 140 {{E}} regiment, with Grenoble, then received with the École of war, from where he leaves in 1892 with the mention very well. He is employed with the staff 27 {{E}} division of infantry. Promoted captain in 1893, it is named in 1896 aide-de-camp of the general Zédé, governor of Lyon.

It makes then its training course of commander of company in 1899 with the 99 {{E}} regiment of infantry in Lyon and Gap. After a passage to the staff of the government of Briançon, it is promoted Major to the 159 {{E}} regiment of infantry which carried the alpine beret. In December 1907, it takes the command of the 30 {{E}} battalion of Alpine hunters, station which it preserves when it is promoted Lieutenant-colonel.

Mountaineer and skier, the Goybet lieutenant-colonel benefitted from his stay prolonged in the the Alps to make many rises, either only, or with his troop: Mont Blanc, Great Breakage, Meije, Pelvoux, etc

First World War

1914: Alpine troops

With the release of the war in August 1914, the Goybet lieutenant-colonel and the alpine group whom it orders 30 CH. 1st Bie of the 1st RAM. are assigned to the face of the the Vosges. The first combat in Alsace are victorious: Satel de Munster - Reichsacker-Kopf (August 14th), Gunsbach (August 19th), Logelbach (August 22nd), taken convoy of a division of Bavarian infantry with the Collar of Mandray (August 24th). Placed at the head of the 152 {{E}} regiment of infantry, it gains new successes in Alsace: Gunsbach (August 29th), Reichsacker-Kopf (September 3rd), then in the Vosges, in the north of Saint-Dié (Ormont and Spitzenberg, 11 and September 17th). It is then quoted with the order of the army.

It is promoted with the row of Colonel and receives the command of the 81 {{E}} brigade (152 {{E}} IH, 5 {{E}} and 15 {{E}} battalion of hunters to foot (BCP). It is again affected in Alsace, in the Vallée of Thann. Its troops take Steinbach (December 25th 1914 with the January 3rd 1915).

1915: Under the fire of the engagements

Colonel Goybet spends all the year 1915 to fight with the Hartmannsweilerskopf, the Hilsenfirst and the Linge. He is wounded twice: with the Hartmannsweilerskopf in April, where it was neat with the ambulance of Moosch, and in December, where it was evacuated on the interior. Hardly cured, in March 1915, colonel Goybet joined the 98 {{E}} regiment of infantry (which belongs to the 50 {{E}} brigade and to the 25 {{E}} division of infantry) in front of Verdun.

To the autumn, its division is transported in north where is held the Bataille of the Sum. Colonel Goybet is named with the command of the 50e brigade (attacks of Chaulne and the press, the 9 and November 10th).

He is again quoted with the order of the army, by Pétain.

1917: Verdun

At the beginning of 1917, the colonel, with the reorganization of the infantry, takes the command of the 25 {{E}} Division of Infantry (16 {{E}}, 98 {{E}} and 105 {{E}} regiments of infantry). It occupies the sector of Plessis-with-Roye - Lassigny. At the time of the strategic retreat of the enemy, it carries out operations of continuation until the Canal Crozat (16 with the March 23rd 1917), then in front of Saint-Quentin (3 with the April 17th). In August, its division takes share with the second Bataille of Verdun. The 20, its men seize the wood of Avocourt after violent one engagements.

After a short stay in the Forest of Argonne, its division will occupy the sector of Bezonvaux where it pushes back German Contre-attaque S almost daily. In December, colonel Goybet is named general.

1918: towards the Victoire with the Red Hand with a Franco-American division

The 25e division of infantry is assigned to spring with the sector of Morthomme. The Goybet general is called with the command of the 157 {{E}} decimated close to the Chemin of the Ladies. The infantry of the 157 {{E}} Division of Infantry was reconstituted with the 333 {{E}} regiment of infantry and the 371e and 372e black American Régiments (division " red hand " Red Hand" ).

The Units of national Guards which were the core of the 372e regiment were made up of the oldest battalions of blacks in the country with roots which went up to the American Civil War. These troops ensured the defense of Washington and the Capitole.

The 157e was going to occupy the sector of the Forêt of Argonne - Vauquois coast 304, until the moment when it had to take part with the armed IV {{E}} in the general offensive in Champagne. The Goybet general, by violent attacks, breaks the enemy face in front of Monthois, made many prisoners and seizes a considerable material. The 157e then will occupy the Vosges in front of Sainte Marie the Mines. It then receives Distinguished Service Medal of the Americans, a new quotation of the general Gouraud. It makes benefit its Franco-American troops from these recognitions.

Document Testimony of sergeant WM Hendrey of the 372 eme of infantry to the armistice. (source E.J Scott).

One of the scenes most incredible, of which I could be pilot, was today with 11:05. the orchestra of the regiment played the Marseillaise, " the star bangled" and " god save the king". As soon as the dermieres notes were keep silent, of merry acclamations by the whole of the soldiers and the civilians, was almost deafening. Of the old men jumped and threw their hats, the women whose heart was heavy of an exhaustion, caused by a war relentless, agitated their hands and exultaient joy and the children gambadaient joyeusement through the streets. the bells and the chimes with the church which were previously quiet, sent their noisy resonance to any flight. Indeed, these ringings were messages of joy. At the same time, the orchestra attacked a endiablée walk and entonna its walk in the streets accompanied by " Old Glory".

the regiment of color and soldiers American and French. The scene was a beautiful mixture of colors Khakhi and blue. It was as if they wanted to be linked like an big family to celebrate the glorious events and to see the reflection of their own joy on the faces of their comrades in arms. The streets were filled up of a strong emotion and an ebullient abundance of humanity. It seemed to me that the fraternity of the trenches called the fraternity of the men.

Official History off American Negro in the world war by E.J.Scott. Secretary off war 1929. Translation Henri Goybet

End

Between two Wars

After the armistice and the dissolution of the 157 {{E}} division of infantry, the Goybet general was chosen by the general Auguste Edouard Hirschauer, governor military of Strasbourg as associated general, ordering place. He will occupy this station of December 1918 in March 1920.

The general Gouraud high commissioner of the French Republic in Syria made come the Goybet general to give him to the command initially mixed brigade of the littoral then of the 3rd D.I of the army of Raising. Go on Damas of the Goybet general on July 24th, 1920 hardly more than one year after the entry to Damas of T.E. Lawrence and of the English general Allenby.

Geopolitical situation in Damas (1918-1920)

The Arab revolt (1916-1918) started in 1916 with Hussein continues her projection towards Damas. It is launched to obtain the independence of Arabia of the Ottoman Empire. T.E. Lawrence helps Arabic in this combat at the sides of Fayçal ibn Hussein. The English support the movement with the English troops of the Allenby general.

The entry of the English troops on October 1st under the command of the Allenby general in 1918 in Damas, then that of Fayçal on Oct. 3, is humiliating for France after several centuries of influence and religious protectorate with Raising. This English victory awakes of old antagonisms between the allies. It is due to the presence on the ground of a considerable military force, a million men, which testifies to the extent of British engagement in the East, against the thin manpower maintained by France in the area.

October 2nd, supported by the nationalists and politicking local damascenes, Ali Riza Rikaby had taken the control of the Arab military government of the hands of Choukri Pasha Al-Ayoubi, proclaimed provisional governor two days before. The flag of the sherifs had then been hoisted and the new Arab administration had proclaimed its allegiance with Hussein as a king of all the Arabs.

- November 11th, 1918, return of Lawrence in London where he proposes the creation of 3 Arab kingdoms; Syria would be allotted to Fayçal. - January 8th, 1919 Conference of Paris where Lawrence assists Fayçal. The promises made with Arabic run up against the Franco-British interests for the division of the Close East

During the absence of Fayçal in Europe being occupied to defend the Arab interests against the French determination, given up by its British allies, its capacity in Syria had weakened. Criticisms against him became virulent, especially after the Fayçal-Clemenceau agreement in Paris on January 9th, 1920.

Removed from its British rival ally, France has the freehands on the ground. Its policy in favor of the creation of large Lebanon, like its will to control the whole of Syria, in the long term makes inevitable confrontation with Fayçal. October 8th, 1919, the Gouraud general is named Haut-commissaire in Syria-Cilicie, and the French troops start to raise the British in Lebanon and on the Syrian littoral.

Starting from this date, the situation is degraded in Syria and the radical nationalists issue the general mobilization. March 8th, 1920, the Arab Congress at this meeting in Damas, rejecting the agreements Fayçal- Clemenceau, unilaterally proclaims the independence and the creation of a Syrian Arabic kingdom in its natural borders, including Palestine, and Fayçal as king de Syrie. But in April 1920, the conference of San Remo in Italy, confirming the modified Sykes-Barb agreements (agreements on oils), gives to France the mandates on Lebanon and Syria, to England the mandates on Palestine, Syria of the south (Transjordanie) and Iraq.

The tension is with its roof in Syria and in Lebanon, the incidents multiply. July 14th, 1920, the Gouraud general launches an ultimatum in Fayçal. July 24th, 1920, the French column ordered by the Goybet general went on Damas.

Mariano Goybet in transit in Cairo meets the Allenby marshal on March 25th, 1920. Allenby explains foctionnement feudal Arab tribes of the area and the advantages to him which England wishes to draw for their control from the area.

On the way of Damas

Decided to finish some with the duplicity of the emir Fayçal, the Gouraud general gave the order to the Goybet general to attack the army of the sherifs with his DI and to occupy Damas shortly after the passage of T.E. Lawrence says Lawrence of Arabia.

The column of the Goybet general included/understood important manpower: infantry especially made up of battalions and Senegalese and Moroccan regiments, batteries of 75 and 155, sections of car-guns and armoured cars, two formations of aviation, company tanks of genius as well as elements of reserve.

Manpower of the sherifs are the following:

- 1300 men with 8 guns close to Medjel and-gravel bank

- 1800 regular and Bedouin with 3 guns with Khan meisseloun and Ain Djedeidé

- 1800 men with guns towards railway of Damas.

After having crossed Lebanon and the Anti Lebanon, the 3rd DI delivered a violent one fights in Khan Meiseloun; victorious, the Goybet general made his entry in Damas, on July 25th, 1920, deposited the emir Fayçal, pacified revolted Hauran and exerted the command of the territory of Damas, until his setting with the framework of reserve, on August 17th, 1921. He returned to France Commander of the Legion of honor and holder of one 5th mention in dispatches, of the Military Cross of the TOE and the medal of Syria. June 30th, 1923, it was named major general. It obtains the cross of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor

Victory of Khan Meiseiloun

Myriam Harry in the Illustration of August 21st, 1920 says this

the extremely keen combat lasted 8 hours in famous the 6 kilometers long procession. the Of the sherifs ones had barred the road by a wall furnished with machine-guns, believer to prevent the passage of the tanks, but the tanks slipped into the ravine between the wall and the mountain and, passing in the village, they are assembled to the attack of the peak followed by the infantrymen of the 415e, the Algerians and the Moroccan Senegaleses, launched to any gallop, wrapped the positions of an overflowing movement. And the top rained the shells, shingled the grapeshot. Several hours the tanks remained face to face with the batteries and it is only when they succeeded in putting fire at the cases of ammunition that the of the sherifs ones released foot and fled disabled completely by the death of the Minister for the war Asmy Bey, killed at its station by a glare of shell ..............

a colonel ordering the backs guards still gives us some details. When the routed army is flowed towards Damas, the distress was absolute. The emir Fayçal and his brother were flee. Yesterday evening the new Minister for the war arrived here, declaring with the Goybet general that the city was at its mercy and no resistance to its troops opposed.

the Goybet general wants that one buries Asmy Bey with the military honors. " it was a remarkable Turkish officer. If you had seen its positions, organized like ours, with batteries, trenches and connected to the stations of combat by telephone wire! One would have believed oneself in the Great War. Moreover all the guns, all the equipment came from to Boches, and all the cases of ammunition carried the inscription: Munitionen für die Turkei… "

(The witness further caught up with the troops of the Goybet General.)

We arrived in time. On the 2 sides of Barada develop the French troops, the first European troops which ever entered the capital of Ommiades - the crusaders besieged it in vain - and in front of the old Turkish barracks, the conqueror of Damas, the Goybet general with horse, looks at hauled and radiant, to ravel its victorious army.

The descendant of the slave of Damas

It is about an extract of the first lines of the first page of the book devoted to the family of Montgolfier known more particularly for its inventors Joseph and Etienne at the origin of the conquète of space. Editions G of Bussac 1960 writing by Leon Rostaing. (671 pages). The chapter is entitled 'Origins of the Montgolfier family.

If it is necessary to refer some to the old traditions, two family members, who resided in the small village of Frankenthal in Bavaria left for the East with the first Crusade in 1095. Only one returned from there.

The traditions of the family admit that during the second crusade in 1147, a Jean Montgolfier, nephew of this last were made prisoner and were slave in Damas, where it worked during three years with the manufacture of the cotton paper. However, seven hundred and sixty ten years after, a descendant of the slave of Damas, the General Mariano Goybet, ordering the 3rd Division of the French Army of Raising, tie-beam as a winner in this city on July 25th, 1920, after having crushed the day before with the hard combat of Kan Meiseloun, the army of the Emir Fayçal.

I “reigned” during one year on Damas and his oasis; remembering Jean de Montgolfier, I made a point of visiting on banks of Barada the old mills with paper, where one makes cotton paper to the form. Being given the immobility of the East, I saw certainly the old tanks auprès of which worked our relative. This “revenge” in the long term is not it not curious? (General Mariano Goybet, January 19th, 1933).

Reprocess

It was very attached to the war veterans and when those of Yenne chose it as chair it dedicated itself to their service. Its currency Plain as with the face . The parties were indifferent for him. For him only one thing counted " France to like and serve . It was friendly with Gouraud, Pétain, Debeney.

It would have treated its soldiers always in a way right. It had the concern of treating well the American black troops of which it had the load.

He was regarded by his superiors as a good tactician and a courageous man.

Family of Mariano Goybet

Marriage

Mariano Goybet married Marguerite Lespieau (1868-1963), girl of her general Theodore Lespieau (1829-1911).

His/her children

It had a girl Claire born in 1896 and three wire of which Pierre Goybet (1887-1963) Against Admiral who will follow and 2 others wire died for France during large the guerre' .

- Adrien Goybet (1889-1915) (international champion of military ski in 1908)

It was affected as sergeant with the regiment of the Moroccan riflemen. It was named adjudant and valiantly led his section to the attack of sliced vandals in 1915. It falls glorieusement far into the German lines in front of nap PY. Military Cross with palms, medal of Morocco.

- Frederic Goybet (1891-1914) Louis-the-Large college

Received 1st on 42 with the examination of under officer. Appointed sergeant, it makes a training course in aviation. It left for the Vosges in 1914. August 19th it involved its hunters with the attack heights of Gunsbach. It was mortally wounded there. Military Cross with palms).

His/her uncles

- Antoine Goybet (1787-1867) Chevalier of the Legion of Honor

Alexis Goybet large father of Mariano married to Louise de Montgolfier small niece of Montgolfier, is the brother of Antoine Goybet, mayor of the town of Yenne between 1836 and 1867.

- Major general Charles Goybet (1825-1910) Large Officer of the Legion of Honor

General inspector of the cavalry

- Laurent Goybet (1833-1912) Chevalier of the Legion of Honor

To advise prefecture with Nice, Large Judge of Monaco.

His/her brothers

- Major general Victor Goybet (1865-1947) Large Officer of the Legion of Honor

It achieves almost all its career in the Alpine Troops. Wounded in 1914 and 1916

Ordering 101 {{E}} R.I then Ordering 79e brigade, it takes part in the defense of Verdun. It takes share with the offensive of the Sum (1916). It takes the command of the 65 {{E}} Division of Infantry. It occupies Mayance on December 9th, 1917.

(It had as wire the colonel Charles Goybet born in 1898. Officer of the Legion of Honor which took part in two wars 1914-1918 (Way of the Ladies, Somme) and 39-45 (Countryside of Norway). It also made the Countryside of Syria (1920-1921))

- Captain Henri Goybet (1868-1958) Commander of the Legion of honor.

It took share with the Campagne of China on board the Mytho (1900-1901). In 1914 it organizes for the defense of the fortified camp from Paris 10 sections of car-Projectors under the command of the Galliéni general. Envoy on mission in France and Algeria for defense against the submarines. In November 1917 he is chief of staff of the Ronach vice-admiral whom he joined in Dunkirk. With the armistice it is successively ordering naval base of Tarente then of that of Beirut.

Its descent

The son of Mariano Pierre Goybet (1867-1963) (Against Admiral) is commander of the Legion of honor. The grandson of Mariano, the major Adrien Goybet (1922-1995) also perpetuated the service of the nation, high with the row of chevalier of the Legion of Honor creating a line of three legionaries to the service of the community property answering the criteria of the ordinance of 1814 intended for " To perpetuate in the families the zeal for the good of the State by honourable souvenirs." Henri Goybet, Attache of direction banking, wire of Adrien made its service in the Alpine hunters (27 {{E}} BCA) in homage to Mariano, Alpin him even. It belongs to a.H.H. the association of the Hereditary Honors which gathers the families designated especially by this ordinance of louis XVIII.

- Against Admiral Pierre GOYBET (1887-1963) commander of the Legion of honneur'

Pierre Goybet married his cousin Germaine Henriette Goybet girl of Henri. For this marriage it was necessary to ask the authorization of the pope. They had Marguerite, Adrien legionary of which we will speak again, Francoise and Claude Captain in the merchant navy.

It begins the war of 1914-1918 as marine gunner (Lorraine, Verdun) and finishes it like aide-de-camp of against admiral Amet. Pierre detached with the ministry for the Inventions, in 1918, developed the " nomogrammes" calculations of the shooting.

Between the two wars it is in particular on July 20th, 1933, named ordering Ville D' Ys , sloop escort ship which orders the flotilla New Ground, Greenland, Canada, Labrador then it exerts on the Jules-Vernes (supply of submarines).

In 1940 it is ordering fastest cruiser Primauguet of the fleet.

It unloads in Aruba (the Antilles) in April 40 with its marine troops to protect the installations from the `Standard `and `Shell' Petroleum against the German attacks.

on June 25th, 1940, although attacked at the beginning by the Germans at the beginning of the Verdon, it carries part of the reserves of the gold stock of Banque de France, the gold and the jewels of the Belgian Crown to put it in sure place in Casablanca.

'Cruiser Primauguet ordered by Pierre Goybet. Presentation by itself.

" The Primauguet cruiser of 8000 tons " Washington" what made him 11.500,120 000 horses well of them, four propellers, 32 nodes, 8 guns of 155 out of double turrets, marvellous building of sea, had a state major which I will have chosen, if I had had the right of it, and crew except series which always had the smile and which only required on the occasion to brawl. A boat like that, that is ordered all alone. Moreover this blessed boat was embrigadé in no squadron, in any division and always sailed " with the part". It was lent Put, Fort-de-France, or in Dakar"

In November 1942, unloading of the Americans. It is ordering wearing of Casablanca.
It receives the generals Patton, Kees and Wilburg to treat suspension of the hostilities.

It is named Against Admiral for act of war the same day that Wilburg passed general.

- Major Adrien Goybet (1922-1957) Chevalier of the Legion of Honor

Major of Marines Parachutist.

It follows the special drive of the marine missions (commando; Parachute; information, demolition) in Australia and India (1944-1945) with the British troops of the force 136 pennies orders of the admiral Mountbatten (unit whose commando inspired famous “the Bridge of the `Kwai river'.”.)

In June 1945 it is parachuted on mission special in Kampuchea still occupied by the Japanese. Parachuting in `' Blind' without committee of reception on the ground. It prepares the unloading of the troops of the Leclerc general.

Ensuite it is Guinea, Morocco, then Indo-China (1951-1954) as officer of information of the sector more exposed of Tonkin to knowing Phu Ly. It takes part in all the operations of the sector to the head of the units which it informs.

Extracts from letter of the Bigeard general of January 14th, 1995.
...........

In remembering this rotted corner of PHU LY In Tonkin or in the capacity as officer of Information you gave best yourself. So accurately

Signed: Bigeard

It is then ordering of the armor-plated squadron of Black Point (Congo). (1955-1958).

War of Algeria (1958-1961). It is in particular Ordering under districts of Rokmia and Lannoy in the mountains of Constantinois. (It has been particularly distinguished on March 7th, 1959 or its company with hung and given the attack twice to an invincible rebellious band for more than four Years).

In Noumea in 1962, it is affected with the staff of the higher command of the troops of the Pacific. It finishes its military career as director of the teaching of English at the school of application of the infantry (Military cadets) of Saint-Maixent.

Principal decorations

Large Officer of the Legion of Honor
Military Cross 1914-1918 (4 mentions in dispatches)
Military Cross of the TOE (1 mention in dispatches)
Knight about Nichan el-Anouar
Medal commemorative of the war 1914-1918
Medal commemorative of Distinguished Syria-Sicily
of the military casualties
Medal of the Victoire
Distinguished Service Medal (the USA)
Commander of the white Eagle of Serbia with swords (Yugoslavia)
Companion about the Bath
Knight of the crown of Italy
Officer of the Saver of Greece
Knight of St Olaf of Norway
Knight of the Spanish military merit
interallied Medal

Rear-admiral Pierre Goybet
General Victor Goybet
Captain Henri Goybet|
Général Charles Goybet
Général Theodore Lespieau
Thomas Edward Lawrence says Lawrence of Arabia
French Mandat in Syria
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