Jean Louis Roué
 Jean Louis Roué |
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| Born | January 8, 1933 France |
| Allegiance |
 France |
| Service/branch |
French Army French Foreign Legion
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| Years of service | 1953 - 1993 |
| Rank | Général de corps d’armée |
| Commands held |
2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment 2e REP Chief of French elements UNIFIL  Commandement de la Légion Étrangère
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Jean Louis Roué was a Général de corps d’armée of the French Army and Commandant of the French Foreign Legion.
Called up to serve his military obligations, he was assigned to the 71st Infantry Battalion (French: 71e Bataillon d'Infanterie) on November 3, 1953, where he was nominated as a caporal, on April 16, 1954 and was promoted to Caporal-chef on May 1.
Selected to become an officer, he was sent to the infantry application school on May 7 in quality of a reserve officer student. He was promoted to the rank of sergent on August 1, 1954.
He joined the 12th company of the 3rd battalion of the 51st Infantry Regiment (French: 51e Régiment d'Infanterie) in Tunisia with the rank of reserve aspirant on November 1 of the same year. He was nominated as reserve sous-lieutenant on May 1, 1955. It was with this rank that he was assigned to the 57th Infantry Regiment (French: 57e Régiment d'Infanterie) on August 31, 1956, after being cited on July 28 for his action throughout the course of an operation in the forest of Mouias in the department of Constantine. Having made his engagements, he was presented to the 20th preparatory platoon series at the entry of ESMIA of Strasbourg on October 1, 1956. Successful, he subscribed to an engagement with the active rank of sergent, from the same date. One year later, he integrated the ESMIA Coetquidan. Nominated to sous-lieutenant on October 1, 1958, he was assigned to the 71st Infantry Regiment (French: 71e Régiment d'Infanterie) and detached to the polytechnic school of Dinan in quality of an instructor.
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