Louis Rougier

Many official documents recount General Rougier's life and career:
- 14 August 1867, diploma from the Ecole de la Martinière
- 5 May 1870, diploma Bachelor of Science
- 16 Nov 1870, order to visit the Fort Romainville (to take part in the defence and the headquarters of Paris), while he was just received at the Polytechnique school.
- January 1872, after the war, actually named student at the Ecole Polytechnique (classification No. 77)
- 11 Sept. 1972, appointed Sub-Lieutenant of Engineering (Beautiful School)
- 21 October 1874, appointed Second Lieutenant at the 2nd Regiment of Engineering in Montpellier
- 11 Nov 1876, named 1st class lieutenant at the 4th Regiment of Genius in Valbonne (near Bellegarde)
- 5 June 1877, the Committee of Fortifications (of the Regimental School of Engineering of Montpellier) proposes it for a collective praise for its "trend lifts" (reorganisation of the defences of the Spanish border of the Oriental Pyrenees)
- 31 October 1877, promoted to the rank of Captain in the Corps of Engineers
- 24 Dec 1877, assigned to the private Major State of Nice Genius
- 10 February 1879, assigned to Toulon
- 3 March 1879 and 7 March 1879, assigned to the Maijor State of Genius in Perpignan,
- 31 May 1883, appointed Captain 1st class
- 1 May 1885, then to the Major of the Engineers in Port-Vendres, he was appointed Chief Engineer at Fort-les-Bains, Bellegarde
- 2 Oct 1886, then Chief of Engineering at the Fort Bellegarde, Statement of satisfaction General Cdr 16th Region
- 5 May 1889, appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor
- 29 December 1890, to Algeria
- 10 January 1891, appointed Chief of Engineering in BatnaAlgeria
- 29 April 1893, promoted Chief of the Battalion
- 24 April 1895, position outside the ranks, seconded to the Ministry of Colonies Head of Mission for the Operation, Maintenance and Studies of the Sudan Railway, to sail in Bordeaux on 5 June 1895
- 10 Nov 1896, obtains the Colonial Medal, staple Senegal and Sudan
- 12 July 1897, then head of the Sudan Railway Mission, promoted Officer of the Legion of Honor
- 13 July 1899, promoted Lieutenant-Colonel
- 3 October 1902, then Director of the Railway of Sudan, promoted Colonel
- 27 November 1906, repatriated from Sudan, appointed Commander of the 16th Military Region (named Brigade General) in 1906
- 22 April 1907, then Brigade General, Commander of the 16th Region, obtained the Medal, French West Africa staple
- no date, circa 1907, promoted Officer of the Agricultural Merit
- July 11, 1908, promoted Commander in the Legion of Honor
- 29 December 1909, appointed Commander of the Brigade of the Military Government of Paris and Cdt of the Seine-et-Oise department in Versailles
- 2 July 1910, appointed by Albert, King of the Belgians, Commander of the Order of Leopold, letter of 20 July from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
- 2 November 1910, General Rougier's funeral, words spoken by General Marcy, Commander of the Military Government of Paris
- 29 February 1912, General Cdr. Genius' letter to Nancy, addressed to his widow and paying tribute to General Rougier at a conference on French colonial expansion
- 22 December 1922, award of the name "General Rougier" on a street in Bamakocapital of the Sudan

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- Noticus by General Marcy
- Obituaries in a Versailletian newspaper
- Other necrotic article

Details Portrait of the general, probably painted in Versailles around 1908.

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Louis ROUGIER was the son of  Ferdinand ROUGIER, stone cutter, coffee maker and seamstress Field), and  Melanie DUPREZ

He was born in Champagnole in 1851, the 12th child of a 13-year-old family. His father died when he was 9 years old and was then taken over by his 17-year-old brother Felix. He was often the case in many families. In memory, Louis called his eldest son Felix, and later helped his brothers in difficulty.
He returned several times to Champagnole during his permissions from Sudan, to his family. Maurice ROUGIERHis son, Claude Rougier's father, said that they would go fishing together on the morning.
His studies led him to the lycée de la Marinière in Lyon and then to the École Polytechnique in 1870, and he took part in the fights at the siege of Paris (fort de Romainville). He went out to the Génie in 1873 (his mother died at that time, he was 22 years old).
First assigned to the Chieftain of the Nice Genius, then to the Chieftain of Perpignan, he received his 2 galons of lieutenant in 1874 and the galons of captain in 1877.
A Perpignan it has contributed to the construction of the strategic road along the Spanish border, Port-Sales to Pertus collar And beyond it, he defended the Pertus Pass.

Louis ROUGIER, Polytechnician

Captain ROUGIER and Pauline
on a honeymoon trip to Rome

Then he married a young girl from Port Vendres, Pauline REIGIn 1880, his parents, who died, were absent from the wedding, but he had photos taken in the Jura. letters dated 11 February and 6 March 1980addressed to his older brother Felix, he spoke of Pauline with whom he had just married, of a ball in Nice and of his honeymoon to Rome.
From 1881 to 1891 he was chief of engineering at the Nice watch.
Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1889.
In 1890 he was assigned to the French Batna (in the Monts des Aurès), where he won his fourth major's row in 1893, the year his son was born. Mauritius- I'm Claude's father.
On his request, (cf. the ruin of his father-in-law, with the disappearance of the rent which he paid to Pauline) he left at Sudan French (Mali, capital Bamako, today)) in 1895 for 11 years. He was then head of the Sudan Railway Mission, where he built the Kayes in Bamako. He had replaced the future Marshal Joffre. He was then Lieutenant-Colonel, and then Colonel. From this time on he kept positive Verascopes who were in Vierville. His family did not follow him in Black Africa, climates and conditions too harsh at the time. He did not seem to have returned to France during these 11 years, which seems to us extraordianeous in our time of air travel.
In 1906, he returned to France, and was appointed Brigadier General, Commander of the 16th Military Region in Montpellier.
He then went to Versailles to order the Place, the Seine-et-Oise department and the Brigade du Génie du Gouvernement Militaire de Paris. His offices were at the Grandes Écuries in Versailles, opposite the Château.
Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1899 and Commander in 1908.
During the catastrophic floods of Paris in February 1910, he spent himself without counting on a very heavy job. Very tired, he was diagnosed with asthma and went to a spa cure that ended him. However, he went to the wedding of his daughter Lucie (at the Trianon Palace in Versailles). He's dead. While her son Maurice (18 years old) was going to look for an oxygen balloon to help him breathe.