All tagged Brigadier
Frédérique Nourdin, the first female brigadier in the Garde Républicaine and currently its second-in-command, is a small, friendly woman who admits to having “itchy feet”. But behind the bubbly personality lies a strong will, a formidable organiser and a tough stance vis-à-vis what she considers just…
Few people know a woman colonel was in charge on January 9, 2015, when the Kouachi brothers -- who two days earlier had perpetrated a terrorist attack against the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné -- holed up in a printing shop in Dammartin-en-Goële. Anne Fougerat was the colonel…
Christine Chaulieu became a French Army Brigadier General on 19th July 2016, the first active female soldier in the Army to be appointed to this rank for 26 years and only the fourth to attain such a rank in the history of the French Army…
