House of Hauteclocque

Second World War and Marshal of France. Haulte clocque in Middle French

Napoleon's Grande Armée and a fourth, who suffered from weak health, in the supply train. The youngest of these had a son, who became a noted egyptologist; he, in turn, had three sons: the first and third became officers in the French Army, serving in colonial campaigns before being killed in the First World War; the middle son, who also served in World War I but survived the conflict and thus inherited the family estate in Belloy-Saint-Léonard, was Philippe Leclerc's father.^[1]