French Army

French Army
French Army
Armée de terre
Founded	26 May 1445; (580 years, 296 days ago)
Country	France
Branch	Army
Role	Land warfare
Size	118,600 active personnel; 23,000 reserve personnel
Part of	French Armed Forces
Mottos	Honneur et Patrie; 'Honour and Fatherland'
Colours on logo:	Blue, white, and red
Engagements	List of conflicts Hundred Years' War; Colonial Wars (1534–1980); Italian Wars; Thirty Years' War; War of the League of Augsburg; War of the Spanish Succession; War of the Polish Succession; War of the Austrian Succession; Seven Years' War; American Revolutionary War; French Revolutionary Wars; Napoleonic Wars; French intervention in Spain; Greek War of Independence; Conquest of Algeria; Belgian Revolution; Franco-Moroccan War; Cochinchina Campaign; Crimean War; Franco-Austrian War; Franco-Prussian War; Paris Commune; French conquest of Tunisia; Mandingo Wars; First Franco-Dahomean War; Second Franco-Dahomean War; Ouaddai War; First World War; Franco-Turkish War; Levant Campaign; Rif War; Second World War; Indochina War; Malagasy Uprising; Suez Crisis; Algerian War; Lebanese Civil War United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (1978–present); ; Gulf War; Kosovo War; 1999 East Timorese crisis; Operation Enduring Freedom; War in Afghanistan; Northern Mali Conflict; Second Ivorian Civil War; Central African Republic conflict; ;
Website	defense.gouv.fr/terre
Commanders
Chief of the Armed Forces	President Emmanuel Macron
Chief of the Defence Staff	Army General Thierry Burkhard
Chief of the Army Staff	Army General Pierre Schill
Major General of the French Army	Army Corps General Hervé Gomart

The French Army (French: Armée de terre, lit. 'Army of Land') is the land service branch of the French Armed Forces. The Army is commanded by the Chief of Staff of the French Army (CEMAT), who is subordinate to the Chief of the Defence Staff (CEMA), who in turn is responsible to the President of France. CEMAT is also directly responsible to the Ministry of Armed Forces for administration, preparation, and equipment.

The French Army, following the French Revolution, has generally been composed of a mixed force of conscripts and professional volunteers. It is now considered a professional force, since the French Parliament suspended the conscription of soldiers.