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Maxime Weygand (French pronunciation: [vɛɡɑ̃]; 21 January 1867 – 28 January 1965) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II, as well as a high ranking member of the Vichy regime. Born in Belgium, Weygand was raised in France and educated at the Saint-Cyr military academy in Paris. After graduating in 1887, he went on ...
Maxime Weygand (born Jan. 21, 1867, Brussels—died Jan. 28, 1965, Paris) was a French army officer who in World War I served as chief of staff under Gen. (later Marshal) Ferdinand Foch and who in World War II, as commander in chief of the Allied armies in France, advised the French government to capitulate (June 12, 1940). Born in Belgium but ...
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Jan 24, 2011 · Although Weygand took some decisions to hide material based in French North Africa, Paxton has already shown clearly that he never knew what to do in case of a fight and Germany's own refusal was more significant than any speech of Weygand’s. The main problem of this book is the never-ending comparison between Weygand and de Gaulle.
- Fadi El Hage
- 2011
Jan 10, 2020 · Overshadowed by both Philippe Pétain and Charles de Gaulle in postwar narratives of the French ordeal of 1940–1944, Maxime Weygand represents, perhaps as well as either of those two did, the milita...
Maxime Weygand, peacetime commander of the French Army from 1931 to 1935 and Generalissimo in June, 1940, this article proposes to trace the development of the Army-Nation idea from its origins in the nineteenth century through the troubled period of the thirties to its emergence in 1940 and its adoption and implementation by the officer corps in
MAXIME WEYGAND AND THE FALL OF FRANCE: A STUDY IN CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS1 PHILIP C. F. BANKWITZ W HEN Premier Paul Reynaud an-nounced that he was summon-ing General Maxime Weygand from Beirut on May 19, 1940, the French public understood but one thing: the heir of Marshal Foch was returning to rescue France from total defeat at the
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Maxime Weygand (mäksēm´ vāgäN´), 1867–1965, French general, b. Belgium. A career army officer, he was (1914–23) chief of staff to Marshal Foch, and in 1920 he directed the defense of Warsaw against the Soviet army and turned the tide of the Russo-Polish War in favor of Poland. Weygand subsequently served France as high commissioner in ...
