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Battle of France. 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.
Maxime Weygand 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).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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...
Dismissed (1941) as delegate general and arrested (1942) as a hostage for Gen. Henri Giraud (who had gone over to the Allies), Weygand was held by the Germans until 1945. After his return to France he was accused of collaboration with Germany, but was exonerated in 1948.
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.
- Fadi El Hage
- 2011
Quick Reference. (1867–1965) 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.
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Maxime Weygand died on the27th January 1965 of complications to a fractured femur. He was buried in the Saint-Charles cemetery in Morlaix, in Finistère.
