Emile Yves Picot

Emile Yves Picot was infantry colonel and a French politician born in Brest on 17 March 1862.

Mentioned in the 18th Army Corps, "Picot The commander of the 57th Infantry Regiment, led his battalion to attack the village of Corbény on 13 September 1914, with a decision and a remarkable tactical sense.

Mentioned on 20 January 1917: "Head of a brave body, vigor and spirit, is spending lavishly.

A seriously wounded by shrapnel in the face, tearing his eye, during one of the many recognitions he had to do, to investigate and stop the details of the organization of the sector, which he had to take command.

He is credited with the establishment of Gueules Cassées, meaning "broken faces", an organization of veterans with facial injuries from the First World War.