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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 · Weygand did contribute to the fall of the Third Republic, the application of Vichy's laws and the fight against Gaullists. As with Marshal Pétain, Weygand's actions during the First World War could not excuse him from his other acts.
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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 ...
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...
The Germans were suspicious of Weygand and forced Petain to recall the general to France in November 1941. He retired and in January 1942 rejected approaches by the Allies to join the war against Nazi Germany. When the Allies invaded Algeria and Morocco on 8th November, Petain recalled Weygand who advised him to declare war on Germany.
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French general. He was Foch's chief of staff in World War I, and in 1920 was sent by the French government to aid the Poles in their ultimately successful defence against the advancing Soviet Red Army. In the military crisis of May 1940 Weygand was recalled to assume command of the French armies attempting to stem the German Blitzkrieg attack.
