Hervé Charpentier

{{Multiple issues|{{more footnotes needed|date=December 2017}}{{BLP sources|date=December 2017}}}} {{Infobox military person |name=[[File:Officier général francais 5 etoiles.svg|50px]] Hervé Charpentier |image=Herve Charpentier Bastille Day 2013 Paris t090827.jpg |image_size=250px |caption= |birth_date= {{birth date and age|1955|09|19|df=y}} |death_date= |birth_place= [[Meknes]], [[Morocco]] |death_place= |nickname= |allegiance={{Flagu|France}} |branch=[[French Army]] [[Troupes de Marine|Marine Troops]] |service_years= 1978 – 2015 |rank=[[Général d'armée]] |unit=[[Troupes de marine]] * [[8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment]] [[8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment|8e RPIMa]] * [[1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment]] [[1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment|1er RPIMa]] |commands= 6th Marine Infantry Battalion 6e BIMa [[9th Light Armoured Marine Brigade (France)|9th Light Armoured Marine Brigade]] 9e B.L.B.Ma Infantry School Application [[Commandement des Forces Terrestres]] CFT [[Military governor of Paris]] |battles= [[Ex-Yugoslavia]] [[Rwanda]] [[Lebanon]] [[Ivory Coast]]... |awards= |relations= |other_work= }}

'''Hervé Charpentier''' is a [[Général d'armée]] of the [[French Army]].

He is the 137th [[Military governor of Paris]] ({{langx|fr|[[:fr:Gouverneur militaire de Paris|Gouverneur militaire de Paris]]}}) from 1 August 2012 until 31 July 2015.

== Military career == he was admitted to [[École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr|Saint-Cyr]] in 1975, promotion « Captain Henri Guilleminot » ({{langx|fr|[[:fr:Henri Guilleminot|Henri Guilleminot]]}}). At the end of his scholarity, he chose to serve in the [[Troupes de marine|Marine infantry]].

Nominated as a [[Ranks in the French Army|lieutenant]] in 1978 at the end of the Infantry Application School, he served first in the [[8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment]] [[List of French paratrooper units|8e RPIMa]] until 1981, in quality as a section (platoon) chief ({{langx|fr|chef de section}}) of High Altitude Operational Operator ({{langx|fr| Chuteur Opérationnel}}). He accordingly participated to Operation Barracuda in the [[Central African Republic]] (1979) and Operation Saintonge at [[Vanuatu]] (1980).

He joined then the 23rd Marine Infantry Battalion ({{langx|fr|[[:fr:23e bataillon d'infanterie de marine|23e Bataillon d'Infanterie de Marine]]}}) of Dakar as a section (platoon) chief then assistant ({{langx|fr|adjoint}}) officer of the infantry company. He was promoted to a [[Ranks in the French Army|captain]] in 1982.

Assigned in 1983, he returned to the metropolis and joined the [[3rd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment]] [[List of French paratrooper units|3e RPIMa]] where he served as an operations officer during Operation Diodon 4 in [[Lebanon]] then as commanding officer of the 2nd infantry company from 1984 to 1986. He then joined [[Zaire]] as a counselor of the commandant of the 312th battalion of the 31st Zairian Parachute Brigade.

Promoted to [[Ranks in the French Army|Chef de bataillon]] ([[Ranks in the French Army|Commandant]] - [[Major (rank)|Major]]) in 1988, he was assigned to the [[Chief of Staff of the French Army|general staff headquarters]] of the [[French Army]] ({{langx|fr|l'état-major de l'Armée de Terre}}) at Paris before being admitted to the French War School ({{langx|fr|[[:fr:école de guerre|école de guerre]]}}) in 1991.

Designated as a [[Ranks in the French Army|lieutenant-colonel]], he joined from 1993 to 1995, the [[1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment]] [[List of French paratrooper units|1er RPIMa]] as an operations bureau chief. He participated accordingly to Operation Balbuzard in ex-[[Yugoslavia]] and [[Opération Turquoise]] in [[Rwanda]].

In June 1997, he assumed the command of the 6th Marine Infantry Battalion 6e BIM ({{langx|fr|[[:fr:6e bataillon d'infanterie de marine|6e Bataillon d'Infanterie de Marine]]}}) and was promoted to [[Ranks in the French Army|colonel]] in December. He was admitted as auditor ({{langx|fr|auditeur}}) at the [[Centre des hautes études militaires|CHEM]] ({{langx|fr|Centre des Hautes études Militaires}}) and the Institute of [[Institut des hautes études de défense nationale|IHEDN]] ({{langx|fr|Institut des Hautes études de la Défense Nationale}}) in 2001.

This career made him knowledgeable about the [[Africa|African Continent]]. Accordingly, in July 2002, he joined the [[Head of the Minister of Defence's military cabinet|Military Cabinet of the Minister of Defense]] ({{langx|fr|Cabinet Militaire du Ministre de la Défense}}) to manage the « Africa and Middle East » department cell.

Nominated to [[Général de brigade]] on 1 July 2005, he assumed on the same date the commandment of the [[9th Light Armoured Marine Brigade (France)|9th Light Armoured Marine Brigade]] 9e B.L.B.Ma and was engaged at this title, as operations assistant during [[Opération Licorne]] in the [[Ivory Coast]]. Two years later, he assumed command of the Infantry Application School then was nominated to [[Général de division]] in 2008.

He was elevated to the rank designation of [[Army corps general|Général de corps d'armée]] on 1 July 2010 and assumed command of the [[Commandement des Forces Terrestres]].

He was nominated on 1 August 2012 as officer General of the Defense and Security Zone of Paris, Military governor of Paris and Commandant of the zone terre Île-de-France.

Général Charpentier is the President of the Administrative Council of the [[Musée de l'Armée]] and member of the Administration Council of the Saint-Cyrienne.

On 1 July 2015 he was elevated to the rank designation of [[Général d'armée]]. He replaced Général de corps d'armée Bruno Le Ray ({{langx|fr|[[:fr:Bruno Le Ray|Bruno Le Ray]]}}) on the following 31 July.<ref>[http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000030862180] Décret du 9 juillet 2015 portant maintien dans la 1resection et dans l'emploi, affectations et élévations, élévations, promotions et affectations, promotions dans la 2esection, promotion au titre du congé du personnel navigant, nominations et affectations, nominations dans la 1resection et la 2esection, affectations d'officiers généraux]</ref>

== Recognitions and Honors == {| |colspan="3" align="center"|[[File:Chuteur Opérationnel.jpg|150px]] |- |[[File:Legion Honneur Commandeur ribbon.svg|106px]] |[[File:Ordre national du Merite GO ribbon.svg|106px]] |{{ribbon_devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Croix de la Valeur Militaire ribbon.svg|width=106}}[[File:Award-star-silver-3d.png|23px]][[File:Award-star-silver-3d.png|23px]][[File:Bronze-service-star-3d-vector.svg|23px]] |- |[[File:Croix du Combattant (1930 France) ribbon.svg|106px]] |[[File:Medaille d'Outre-Mer (Coloniale) ribbon.svg|106px]] |[[File:Medaille de la Defense Nationale Argent ribbon.svg|106px]] |- |[[File:Medaille de Reconnaissance de la Nation (d'Afrique du Nord) ribbon.svg|106px]] |[[File:Medaille commemorative Francaise ribbon.svg|106px]] |[[File:BEL - Order of Leopold - Officer bar.svg|106px]] |- |[[File:GAB Order of the Equatorial Star - Knight BAR.png|106px]] |[[File:Order of Merit - Officer (Central African Republic).png|106px]] |[[File:CAR Medaille de la MISAB ribbon.svg|106px]] |- |[[File:Medal_Gabon_Gendarmerie.jpg|106px]] |[[File:GER Bundeswehr Honour Cross Gold ribbon.svg|106px]] |[[File:ESP Gran Cruz Merito Militar (Distintivo Blanco) pasador.svg|106px]] |} * French HALO Operator Badge (Chuteur Opérationnel) * [[Légion d'honneur|Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur]] * [[National Order of Merit (France)|Grand Officer de l'ordre national du Mérite]] * [[Croix de la Valeur militaire]] (2 étoiles en argent et 1 en bronze) * [[Croix du combattant]] * [[Médaille d'Outre-Mer]] * [[Médaille de la Défense nationale]] (silver medal) * [[Médaille de reconnaissance de la Nation]] * [[Médaille commémorative française]] * [[Order of Leopold (Belgium)|Officier de l'ordre de Léopold]] ([[Belgium]]) * Chevalier de l'[[Order of the Equatorial Star]] ([[Gabon]]) * Officier de l'ordre de mérite de Centrafrique * Médaille MISAB * Médaille de la gendarmerie du Gabon * Croix d'honneur de la Bundeswehr (gold) * [[Orders, decorations, and medals of Spain|Grand Croix de l'ordre du mérite militaire espagnol (white ribbon)]] * About twelve other awards and decorations.

== See also == * [[Jean Brette]] * [[Jean-Claude Coullon]] * [[Jean Louis Roué]] * [[31st Brigade (France)|31st Brigade]] * [[Elrick Irastorza]] * [[Bruno Dary]] * [[Benoit Puga]] * [[Jean-Pierre Bosser (army general)|Jean-Pierre Bosser]] * [[Pierre de Villiers]] * [[François Lecointre]]

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