Éric Bellot des Minières

Éric Bellot des Minières
général de brigade Éric Bellot des Minières in 2015, commander of the 1re BM.
Born	(1964-04-05) 5 April 1964 (age 54) Poitiers, Vienne (France)
Allegiance	France
Service/branch	French Army French Foreign Legion
Years of service	1984 - present
Rank	Général de division
Commands held	2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment 2e REP 1st Mechanized Brigade 1reBM 11th Parachute Brigade 11e BP
Battles/wars	Tchad (Epervier 1988-1989, Guépard 1990), Rwanda (Noroît, 1991-1992), Djibouti (Godoria 1991, Iskoutir 1992 et 1993), Somalia (1992-1993), Central African Republic (EFAO, 1995), Kosovo (Trident, 2000-2001), Afghanistan (Pamir, GTIA Altor 2010), Central African Republic (Sangaris, 2014)

Éric Bellot des Minières, born on April 05 1964 in Poitiers, is a général de division of the French Army.

Éric Bellot des Minières is a member of an old French noble family. He married in 1991 and has four children.

Éric integrated École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (promotion « Général Ralph Monclar » 1984-1987 ). He then integrated ENSTA in Paris where he earned in 1999 an Engineering diploma from the superior national advanced technical school, specialized in « Recherche opérationnelle » (operational research).

He joined in 1986, the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment 2^e REP at Calvi where he served until 1995, after having commanded the 3rd company.

It was then during the first passage to the 2^e REP that he participated to Opération Épervier (1988-1989) and Guépard (1990) in Tchad, Operation Noroît (1991-1992) in Rwanda, Operation Godoria (1991), Operation Iskoutir (1992 and 1993) at Djibouti, Somalia (1992-1993), and EFAO (1995) in Central African Republic

From 1995 to 1996, he served at the general staff headquarters of Compiegne, before being an instructor and lead course instructor « Tactique et emploi des armes » (tactical and arms use) at the school of transmissions.

After conducting some studies at ENSTA then the École de guerre (1999-2000), he went back to the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment 2^e REP at Calvi where he assumed the functions of instruction and operations bureau chief (BOI) from 2000 until 2002. He participated during this period to Operation Trident in Kosovo, from 2000 until 2001.