All tagged Brigadier General

Colonel Anne-Cécile Ortemann

Colonel Anne-Cécile Ortemann will, this summer, be promoted to General, only the third woman in the history of the French Army to obtain this rank. You will have to address her as “Madame le général” rather than “Madame la générale” “because rank has no sex” she says…

Brigadier Christine Chaulieu

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…