Jean Colin
Military Person
1864 – 1917
Who was Jean Colin?
Jean Colin, was a French general and military writer. He has been judged "one of the brilliant members of the French General Staff before 1914."
Educated at the École polytechnique, he worked in the history service of the army from 1900 to 1906. He served in World War I, was made a général de brigade in 1917 and was killed that year in Serbia.
He translated Clausewitz's Der Feldzug von 1796 in Italien as Études sur la campagne de 1796-1797 en Italie.
His best known work is Les transformations de la Guerre, translated as France and the Next War or as Transformations of War by L.H.R. Pope-Hennessy. His criticisms of Napoleon and the offensive school were controversial.
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- Born
- Dec 27, 1864
- Also known as
- Jean-Lambert-Alphonse Colin
- Education
- École Polytechnique
- Died
- Dec 30, 1917
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on July 23, 2013
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