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Events on Saturday 3 January 1931 1
1852 – 1931Joseph Joffre (1852-1931)Died 3 January 1931, aged 78French general who was commander-in-chief of the French Army from 1914 to 1916. He led the Allied counter-attack at the First Battle of the Marne, which stopped the German advance on Paris. He was made a Marshal of France in 1916.