Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre (6 February 1839-24 August 1919) was a French Army general who was involved in the Dreyfus affair of the 1890s.
Biography[]
Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre was born in Alencon, France in January 1839, and he graduated from Saint-Cyr and the Staff College before serving as a French Army cavalry major during the Franco-Prussian War. Boisdeffre was promoted to colonel in 1882, assistant chief-of-staff in 1890, and Chief of Staff in 1893. He was consulted on the 1894 French military treaty with Russia, and he was also involved in the Dreyfus affair, affirming the existence of a third incriminating document during Alfred Dreyfus' second court-martial trial in 1898. When the document was revealed to be a forgery, Boisdeffre resigned and retired from public life, dying in 1919.