MAUNOURY, Michel Joseph, French soldier: b. Maintenon, Eure-et-Loir, 17 Dec. 1847. He received his education at the ficole Polytechnique, Paris; first saw active service as second lieutenant in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. In that conflict he was wounded at Champigny. His professional studies were pur sued at the Ecole Superieure de Guerre. From 1886 to 1888 Maunoury was artillery instructor at the famous military academy of Saint-Cyr. In 1897 he attained the rank of colonel, was made brigadier-general four years later and a general of division in 1905. In 1905 he had charge of the artillery of the Paris forts and soon after was made president of the corn mission of military schools. General Man noury was commandant of the P.00le Supe rieure de Guerre in 1907; the following year of the 15th Army corps with headquarters at Mar seilles, and in 1909 of the 20th corps at Nancy.
lie was made military governor of Paris in 1910 and a member of the Superior Council of War. In the War of 1914-18 Maunoury was
placed in charge of the army of maneuver and was rushed north in an effort to turn the flank of Von Kluck's army then driving toward Paris. When the latter discovered Maunoury on his right the drive was stopped and in the battle of the Marne the invader was driven back. Subsequently after the beginning of trench warfare Maunoury held a command at Soissons. He was severely wounded in March 1915 and in the same year received at the hands of the President of the Republic the medaille militaire, the highest military honor in the gift of France. He is also an officer of the Legion of Honor. In November 1915 Mau noury succeeded Gallieni as military governor of Paris. Consult Blanchon, G., (Le general Maunoury' (Paris 1916). See WAR, EUROPEAN.