Died 1957
Hyeres Service/branch French Army | Allegiance France, Vichy France Name Emile Laure | |
Born June 3, 1881
Apt, Vaucluse, France ( 1881-06-03 ) Rank General d'armee (Army general) Commands held Division d'Alger
9e Corps d'Armee
VIII Armee Spouse(s) Eugenie Marguerite Degasquet (married in Draguignan on September 27, 1908) | ||
Auguste Marie Emile Laure (June 3, 1881 – 1957) was a French general d'armee (Army general).
He was born June 3, 1881 in Apt, Vaucluse, France. His father was Jacques Ernest Laure (Ingenieur des Arts et Manufactures). His mother was Marguerite Marie Louise Duval. He died in Hyeres in 1957. He married Eugenie Marguerite Degasquet in Draguignan on September 27, 1908.
Just prior to World War II, he commanded the 9th Military Region. At the time of the outbreak of World War II, he commanded 9e Corps d'Armee. At the Fall of France, he commanded 8th Army until his capture. After his release, he served the Vichy government as Secretary-General to the Head of State until April 1942.
In 1940, he was the commanding officer of the VIIIe Armee on the Lorraine front.
He was imprisoned in La Bresse, with four other generals, on June 22, 1940.
Freed following the intervention of Marshal Philippe Petain, Laure became secretary general of the office of the head of state (secretaire general du cabinet du chef de l'Etat) on November 15, 1940 and, in December, secretary general of the Legion francaise des combattants (LFC), the Vichy veterans organization, replacing Xavier Vallat. He left this position in 1942 after the return of Pierre Laval to the government. He was arrested by the Germans in December 1943 and deported to Germany. He was not released until May 1945.
He was tried in the Epuration legale (French: "legal purge") anti-collaborator trials that followed World War II in France. He was acquitted on July 2, 1948.
His son, Rene Laure, also became a general in the French army. Another son, Henri Laure, became an admiral.