François Louis Auguste Goiran

{{Short description|French soldier and politician}}

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François Louis Auguste Goiran (27 April 1847, Nice – 4 April 1927, Johannesburg) was a French soldier and politician. He was Minister of War from May to June 1911{{Cite book |title=Dictionnaire des ministres (1789–1989) |publisher=Perrin |year=1990 |editor-last=Yvert |editor-first=Benoît |location=Paris |pages=479 |language=}} and Mayor of Nice from 1912 to 1919.[http://www.nice.fr/ressources/nm_115_page_27.pdf « Un creuset d'hommes de l'art... et d'hommes politique »] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061128032115/http://www.nice.fr/ressources/nm_115_page_27.pdf |date=2006-11-28 }}, Nice mag', le magazine d’infos de la Ville de Nice, septembre 2006, p. 27.Alain Ruggiero (sous la direction de), Nouvelle histoire de Nice, Toulouse, Privat, 2006 {{ISBN|978-2708983359}}