Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau

French general during World War I

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1851

Place of Birth: Saint-Affrique, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 19-Mar-1944

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Noël Édouard Marie Joseph, Vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (24 December 1851 – 19 March 1944) was a French general in World War I.
He represented a militant French Catholic element in the French Army, and later headed the Fédération Nationale Catholique, a short-lived movement (1924-1944) which espoused a socio-religious political ideology, driven by conservative Catholic dogma. Despite his significant achievements during the war, he was never named Marshal of France, perhaps owing to his staunch Catholicism, his consistent anti-semitic posture regarding the Dreyfus Affair, and the emerging dominance of a more secular and egalitarian mood in France after the Armistice.