Maurice Janin

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Maurice Janin
Military postcard of the Czechoslovak Legion with Maurice Janin
Birth name	Pierre Thiébaut Charles Maurice Janin
Nickname(s)	The general without honour
Born	(1862-10-19)19 October 1862 7th arrondissement of Paris, France
Died	28 April 1946(1946-04-28) (aged 83) Saint-Sébastien, Isère, France
Allegiance	France
Service/branch	French Army
Rank	Divisional general
Battles/wars	First World War Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
Awards	Order of Lāčplēsis, 2nd class
Alma mater	École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr

Pierre-Thiébaut-Charles-Maurice Janin (October 19, 1862, Paris^[1] – April 28, 1946) was a French general (from April 20, 1916) and military commander who was the chief of the Allied military mission in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. He is known for his betrayal of the Russian Supreme Leader Alexander Kolchak by giving him to the soviet revolutionary committee to be executed in Irkutsk.