French General Staff

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The French General Staff was the central military command authority of France, historically influential in national defense and politics and notably implicated in the Dreyfus affair.

Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form As subject As object
French High Command 0 3
Army Staff of France 0 1
French Army Staff 0 1
French Army high command 0 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf central military command authority
military staff
appliesToJurisdiction French Armed Forces
associatedWith French officer corps culture
anti-Dreyfusard camp
country France
criticizedBy French republicans
intellectuals of the Dreyfusard movement
employed Alfred Dreyfus
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
Georges Picquart
Hubert-Joseph Henry
Georges Picquart
surface form: "Marie-Georges Picquart"
hadReputationFor clericalism
conservatism
monarchist sympathies
hasRole military intelligence
operational command
strategic planning
war planning
headquartersLocation Paris
influenced French domestic politics
French foreign policy
French national defense policy
involvedIn cover-up of evidence in the Dreyfus affair
forgery of documents in the Dreyfus affair
ledBy Chief of the General Staff
location Paris
notableEvent Dreyfus affair
opposedBy Georges Clemenceau
Émile Zola
partOf Ministry of the Armed Forces of France
surface form: "French Ministry of War"

French military establishment
responsibleFor border defense planning
contingency plans against Germany
coordination of army corps
military intelligence evaluation
mobilization plans
significantIn Belle Époque
French Third Republic
surface form: "Third French Republic"

World War I
World War II
interwar period
subordinateTo French Minister of War
Government of France
surface form: "French government"
timePeriod 19th century
20th century
usedBuilding French Ministry of Defence complex
surface form: "War Ministry building in Paris"
usedLanguage French
wasImplicatedIn Dreyfus affair

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

J’accuse…! accuses French General Staff
this entity surface form: "French Army high command"
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy associatedWith French General Staff
Army Reserve commandStructure French General Staff
this entity surface form: "Army Staff of France"
French Defence Staff coordinatesWith French General Staff
this entity surface form: "French Army Staff"
Dreyfus affair involves French General Staff
Maurice Gamelin memberOf French General Staff
this entity surface form: "French High Command"
Alfred Dreyfus militaryUnit French General Staff
French First Army Group subordinateTo French General Staff
this entity surface form: "French High Command"
this entity surface form: "French High Command"