Augusto Pinochet
Pinochet was born in Valparaíso, the son of Augusto Pinochet Vera, a descendant of an 18th-century French Breton immigrant from Lamballe, and Avelina Ugarte Martínez, a woman whose family had been in Chile since the 17th century and was of partial Basque descent. Pinochet went to primary and secondary school at the San Rafael Seminary of Valparaíso, the Rafael Ariztía Institute (Marist Brothers) in Quillota, the French Fathers' School of Valparaíso, and then to the Military School in Santiago, which he entered in 1931. In 1935, after four years studying military geography he graduated with the rank of "alférez" (Second Lieutenant) in the infantry. In September 1937, Pinochet was assigned to the "Chacabuco" Regiment, in Concepción. Two years later, in 1939, then with the rank of Sub-lieutenant, he moved to the "Maipo" Regiment, garrisoned in Valparaíso. He returned to Infantry School in 1940. On 30 January 1943, Pinochet married Lucía Hiriart Rodríguez, with whom he had five children: Inés Lucía, María Verónica, Jacqueline Marie, Augusto Osvaldo and Marco Antonio.
Hippolyte Mircher
Hippolyte Etienne Alphonse Mircher was born on 13 August 1820 in Strasbourg, Alsace.
His parents were Guillaume Mircher (1785–1853) and Catherine Victoire Devaux (1791–1852).
His father had been a junior officer in the Napoleonic armies and had little money.
Hippolyte Mircher volunteered for the army at the age of 18 and was made a sergeant.
He passed the competition at the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr.
He attended the staff college and graduated in 1842 first in his class out of 241 students.
He was named Lieutenant in 1845 and Captain in 1847.
He was posted to Algeria in 1852 and assigned to the governor general.
He worked in the topographic office and studied the Arabic civilization and language.
He had a daughter, Marie Noëlie, born in 1854 to Marguerite Victorine Gady (1828–1868).
They married in Cairo on 3 January 1858.