Early Life and Career
Robert Georges Nivelle, born on 15 October 1856 in the French provincial town of Tulle in Corrèze, had a French father and an English Protestant mother. He began his service in the French Army in 1878 upon graduating from the École Polytechnique. Starting as a sub-lieutenant with French artillery, Nivelle became a colonel-of-artillery in December 1913. During that period, Nivelle served with distinction in Algeria, Tunisia and in China during the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1901.
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