Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre 12 January 1852 - 3 January 1931) was a French general during World War I. He is most known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in 1914.
Honors
Place Joffre, Avenue de la Motte-Piquet, Paris, with bronze statue of mounted subject.
Rue du Maréchal Joffre located in Nice, France
Mount Joffre, a mountain located on the Continental Divide, in British Columbia
Rue Joffre (Joffre Street), located in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada.
Joffre Avenue, located in Milltown, New Jersey, USA.
Avenue Joffre, located in Shanghai, China (since renamed Huaihai Road).
Joffre Street, located in Pascoe Vale, Victoria, Australia.
Joffre, Pennsylvania, zip code 15053 (Latitude 40.4 degrees
