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Louis Bonneau (7 July 1851 – 26 February 1938) was a French Army general.

Biography
Louis Bonneau was born in 1851 in Wissembourg to Gilbert Bonneau, who was an infantry captain, and Madeleine Gnahn. He attended École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr from 1868 to 1870 and subsequently served in the Franco-Prussian War in the Battle of Borny–Colombey, the Battle of Gravelotte, and the Battle of Noisseville, in which he was wounded on 31 August 1870.

On 12 September 1870, while a prisoner-of-war in occupied Metz, he was promoted to lieutenant. While later serving as a professor of history at Saint-Cyr, he was promoted to captain on 2 November 1874. He then served as a colonel of the 62nd Infantry Regiment from 1898 to 1901 and on 2 March 1902 was promoted to brigade general.

Battle of Mulhouse
At the outbreak of World War I, the French Commander-in-Chief Joseph Joffre selected Bonneau to lead an attack against Mulhouse and then destroy the Rhine bridges.

Personal life
Bonneau married Suzanne Hélène Augustine Bastard on 21 August 1907.