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Weygand, General Maxime
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Weygand, General Maxime (1867–1965),French Army officer, born in Brussels of unrevealed parentage. He was Foch's chief of staff during the
First World War and commanded the Polish forces which successfully defended Warsaw against the Red Army in 1920. On 20 May 1940 he succeeded
Gamelin as supreme Allied commander during the fighting which preceded the
fall of France, having been brought out of retirement the previous year to command French forces in the Levant (Syria and Lebanon). His Weygand Plan, to attack from two directions the German corridor which stretched to the coast, came to nothing; the
Dunkirk evacuation followed; soon after, his Weygand Line, which stretched along the Seine and Aisne rivers to the
Maginot Line at Montmédy, was breached; and on 5 June he called on the politicians to arrange an
armistice. He then served as defence minister in
Marshal Pétain'sVichy government before becoming its delegate general in North Africa in September 1940.
According to the Nazis' ambassador in Paris, Otto Abetz, Weygand was an irreconcilable enemy of Germany and a major factor in ensuring that the
Paris protocols remained unratified. Hitler forced his resignation in November 1941 but he continued to influence Pétain and was at least partly responsible for the marshal's strongly worded protest when the Germans invaded unoccupied France in November 1942. Soon afterwards he was arrested and imprisoned in Germany. After the war he was charged with treason but was acquitted.
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The changing image of Vichy in France.(Viewpoint essay)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...historiographical field with a biography of Maxime Weygand, published in 2008, including chapters...simply cannot lose to the Nazis, said Weygand quite correctly. Before Vichy...Vichy - the stand-up ones like Weygand - then fought the N
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Faithful after his fashion
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 10/26/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...French army in 1940, been totally overwhelmed by the New Labour blitzkrieg, Clark hopes that he might prove to be the Maxime Weygand, sent for to take the fight back to the enemy. Elsewhere the symbolism is Arthurian or 12th-century. The image...
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Grandeur and Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe, 1914-1940.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...political elite. Georges Clemenceau, Raymond Poincare, and Edouard Herriot figure largely in this book; Pierre Laval, Maxime Weygand, Maurice Gamelin, and Edouard Daladier, somewhat less. Anglo-French relations are crucial during the inter...
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Chief of Staff: The Principal Officers behind History's Great Commanders; v.1: Napoleonic Wars to World War I.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 508 words
; ...staff from the Napoleonic Wars through World War I. They profile operational chiefs such as James Guthrie Harbord, Maxime Weygand, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Fritz von Lossberg, Hans von Seeckt, and Erich Ludendorff, their relationships with...
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Obituary: Maj-Gen Stanislaw Maczek
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/13/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...signed. He then destroyed his equipment and led his men on foot to the comparative safety of Vichy territory. General Maxime Weygand was astonished to see him, since he had sent the unit to defend what he himself described as "a lost position...
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FDR's 12 apostles.(FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa )(Book review)
Magazine article from: American Diplomacy; 12/4/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Cordell Hull. On reaching Algiers, Murphy quickly negotiated an agreement with the Vichy French leader, General Maxime Weygand, for the delivery of much-needed American consumer goods to North Africa, with the deliveries to be monitored...
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The Missile Defense Program
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/24/2000; 700+ words
; ...system: I am reminded of Clare Boothe Luce's experience in France at the beginning of World War II. French Gen. Maxime Weygand escorted her to the Maginot Line and told her that no enemy could penetrate the defense system--it was impregnable...
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Maxime Weygand
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Maxime Weygand , 1867-1965, French general, b. Belgium...Russo-Polish War in favor of Poland. Weygand subsequently served France as high commissioner...the Franco-German armistice (June), Weygand served in the Vichy government as minister...
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Weygand, Maxime
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Weygand, Maxime (1867–1965) French general. He was FOCH's chief of staff...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...
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Weygand, General Maxime
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Weygand, General Maxime (1867–1965),French Army...the Levant (Syria and Lebanon). His Weygand Plan, to attack from two directions...evacuation followed; soon after, his Weygand Line, which stretched along the Seine...
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Warsaw
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...proclaimed capital of the restored Polish state. In 1920 the Polish defense of Warsaw, led by the French general Maxime Weygand, turned the tide of the Russo-Polish War. The city was the scene in 1926 of a military coup that established Marshal...
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Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and on passive warfare. In May, 1940, Germany began to overrun France; on May 19, Gamelin was replaced by Gen. Maxime Weygand. Arrested by the Vichy government, Gamelin was a defendant at the abortive trial at Riom . He was freed from imprisonment...
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