Louis Bonneau (7 July 1851-26 February 1938) was a French Army General de Division who commanded the VII Army Corps at the start of World War I.
Biography[]
Louis Bonneau was born in Wissembourg, Alsace, France on 7 July 1851, and he joined the French Army in 1868 and fought in the Franco-Prussian War two years later. He was given command of the cavalry brigade of the II Army Corps in 1903, the 41st Infantry Division in 1907, and the VII Army Corps in 1910, and he commanded the corps at Mulhouse during the 1914 Battle of the Frontiers at the start of World War I. His corps was surprised by a rapid German counterattack and forced to abandon Alsace shortly after liberating it, resulting in Bonneau's dismissal by Joseph Joffre.