Commodore is a naval rank.
Andre Siegfried -LRB- April 21 , 1875 -- March 28 , 1959 -RRB- was a French academic , geographer and political writer best known for his commentaries on American , Canadian , and British politics .. He was born in Le Havre , France , to Jules Siegfried , the French minister of commerce .. Le Havre. Le Havre. Jules Siegfried. Jules Siegfried. A few months after the liberation of France in mid-1944 , he was elected to the Academie francaise , taking the vacant seat of Gabriel Hanotaux -LRB- who had been elected in 1897 -RRB- .. liberation of France. liberation of France. Gabriel Hanotaux. Gabriel Hanotaux. He died in Paris in 1959 .