Ardant du Picq, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ardant du Picq

French Army officer

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1821

Place of Birth: Périgueux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 18-Aug-1870

Profession: military personnel, military theorist, non-fiction writer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq (19 October 1821 – 18 August 1870) was a French Army officer and military theorist of the mid-nineteenth century whose writings, as they were later interpreted by other theorists, had a great effect on French military theory and doctrine.