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Maxime Weygand (French pronunciation:; 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.
- Army general
- Eugène Debeney
- 1887–1942
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial fue jefe de operaciones en el Cercano Oriente. Nombrado en 1940 comandante en jefe del Ejército francés, no logró contener el avance alemán ni resolver la difícil situación en la que se encontraba su país a pesar de su empeño en lograrlo.
According to biographer Barnett Singer in his fine work Maxime Weygand: A Biography of the French General in Two World Wars, he suddenly found himself “hurled to the top” of the French Army in May 1940 after but 10 days of Gamelin’s field command proved to be an utter failure.
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). Born in Belgium but educated in.
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19 de may. de 2011 · Maxime Weygand. Contributor: C. Peter Chen. Maxime Weygand was born in Brussels, Belgium. Some sources say that he was the illegitimate son of Empress Carlota of Mexico, and Weygand chose to neither confirm nor deny this rumor. He was educated in Marseille by the Cohen de Léon family.
24 de ene. de 2011 · His Turenne is only a clumsy attempt to dress a wobbly parallel with Foch, his mentor. Barnett Singer nearly shows Weygand as a ‘vichysto-résistant’, an anti-Nazi proconsul who prevented Hitler from using French military bases in Dakar and Bizerte (152-3).
