 Gabriel Auphan

Counter-admiral Gabriel Paul Auphan (November 4, 1894, Alès – April 16, 1982) was a French naval officer who became the State Secretary of the Navy (secrétaire d'État à la Marine) of the Vichy government from April to November 1942.Entered the École navale on October 1911, enseigne de vaisseau in October 1914, he served on board "Jeanne-d'Arc" in the northern squadron, then in April 1915, in the Mediterranean where he participated to operations in the Dardanelles.