Mariano Goybet
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| Birth name | Mariano Francisco Julio Goybet |
| Born | 17 August 1861 Zaragoza, Spain |
| Died | 29 September 1943 (aged 82) Yenne, France |
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 France
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| Service/branch | French Army |
| Years of service | 1882-1923 |
| Rank | General de division |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
| Awards | Grand Officer of the Légion d’honneur Croix de guerre 1914-1918 Distinguished Service Medal (United States) |
Mariano Francisco Julio Goybet (17 August 1861 – 29 September 1943) was a French Army general, who held several senior commands in World War I.
The Goybets are an old family of Savoy which can be traced back to the fourteenth century. They are descended from Louis VIII of France, father of Louis IX of France (St Louis) and allied to the local nobility. They were notaries, merchants, mayors, lords of The Manor, military and industrial people.
One branch of the family was ennobled. There was a provincial governor in 1753 called Goybet de Lutrin de Grilly. He oversaw the provinces of Chablais and Genevois. The family's coat of arms consists of a blue field with three silver stars at the head and an upturned crescent at the point. Traversing the centre is a bar of gold.
Mariano Goybet was the son of Pierre Jules Goybet (1823–1912), an industrialist and Marie Bravais. Marie was the niece of the physicist Auguste Bravais, who studied the composition of crystal.
His grandmother was Louise de Montgolfier, niece of the famous inventors of the hot air balloon.
Mariano Goybet’s father and uncle brought paper making to Spain. He also fabricated steam machinery and was made a Chevalier and a member of the superior Council of Industry by the Spanish Queen.
Goybet was born in Zaragoza, Spain to Pierre Jules Goybet and Marie Goybet. He was educated at the Lycée de Lyon, then at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, from which he graduated as a sous-lieutenant in 1884.
He served in the 2nd Regiment of Tirailleurs Algériens ("Turcos"), where he married Marguerite Lespieau, the daughter of his commanding officer, General Theodore Lespieau, who had fought in the Crimean War, the French conquest of Kabylie, the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune). Goybet was promoted to lieutenant in the 140th Regiment of Infantry, stationed in Grenoble, and then attended L’Ecole de Guerre (the War College), graduating with honours in 1892.
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