Robert Georges Bubble

See also: Bubble

Robert Georges Bubble , born with Tulle the October 15th 1856 and dead the March 23rd 1924 with Paris, was Généralissime, Commander as a chief of the French Army during the First World War.

French officer of English mother (what is worth to him to be Bilingue), it is artillerist of formation and graduate of the Polytechnic school in 1878.

He is useful in Indo-China, Algérie and China as a Officier of Artillerie, and is promoted Brigadier general at the same time as Pétain, in October 1914 at the beginning of the First World War.

The April 19th 1916, it succeeds Pétain in the responsibility of defend Verdun with the command of the {{IIe}} armed and takes again to the Germans the forts Douaumont and Vaux at the side of the Général Mangin, by already showing little respect for the human lives. Following these victories, the December 25th 1916 and because its promises of a fast victory allure the commission of the Army to the Room, it replaces as commander-in-chief of the armies the general Joffre, high with the dignity of Marshal of France but considered to be too static and used by two years successive of distinct combat of without any occasion of decisive opening.

It charms its British allies because it usually speaks the English. It decided to put an end to the War of attrition carried out around Verdun and to return to “the abrupt attack”: it intends to carry the decision by massive frontal attacks safe from a curtain of fire. Allured, Lloyd George agrees to place British troops under its command. But it was claimed that to maintain a secrecy was not the fort of Bubble, and he would have spoken about his offensive to ladies during a dinner. Roof of bad luck, the Germans seized a specimen of his plan of attack in a trench which they had conquered. The offensive which it started did not have thus any effect of surprised against a very strong defense the April 16th 1917, and the Bataille of the Way of the Ladies, also named “Offensive Bubble”, showed a failure and was very expensive in human lives: the Allies lost 350.000 men for a profit of unimportant ground. It was the beginning of famous the Mutineries of 1917, controlled by Pétain which replaced it in catastrophe in May 1917 and made shoot 49 soldiers for the example. The name of Craonne, located in the middle of the battle of the Way of the Ladies, was popularized by the Song of Craonne which remains associated with the mutineers with 1917 with the First World War.

Called as of the first day of the battle of the Way of the Ladies the " to stop " Bubble, it saw its disgrace continuing, in December 1917, when one assigned to him the command of the French troops of North Africa. It returned to France after the war and took its retirement in 1921. He died in his bed in 1924.

States of services

Distinctions

Officer, then Grand Cross of the Nichan Iftikhar

See too

Ranks of the French Army

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