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Chief of Staff Maxime Weygand took significant steps towards motorization and mechanization during the early 1930s... seven infantry divisions became motorized... In 1934, Weygand continued the trend towards armored cavalry by forming the first "light mechanized division" (Division Légère Mèchanique, or DLM...)
En janvier 1911, débute à Paris, sur le site de l'École militaire, la première session du CHEM... lieutenant-colonel Maxime Weygand (session 1913)
Weygand is a controversial figure in French history... De Gaulle's hatred of Weygand was by moments absurd, for example when he criticised the choice of Weygand as generalissimo because he was 'without a drop of French blood in his veins'
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)Controversial figure in twentieth-century French history...
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)This balance [in the historical record] was destroyed, along with Weygand's reputation, by Charles de Gaulle's hijacking of the liberation of France, by the post-war insistence on trying Weygand as a security risk to the state along with Marshal Pétain, and by de Gaulle's petty refusal in 1965 to permit a funeral mass in the church of Saint Louis des Invalides for the 98-year-old general who had served France faithfully and well.
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)En janvier 1911, débute à Paris, sur le site de l'École militaire, la première session du CHEM... lieutenant-colonel Maxime Weygand (session 1913)
Weygand is a controversial figure in French history... De Gaulle's hatred of Weygand was by moments absurd, for example when he criticised the choice of Weygand as generalissimo because he was 'without a drop of French blood in his veins'
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)Controversial figure in twentieth-century French history...
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)This balance [in the historical record] was destroyed, along with Weygand's reputation, by Charles de Gaulle's hijacking of the liberation of France, by the post-war insistence on trying Weygand as a security risk to the state along with Marshal Pétain, and by de Gaulle's petty refusal in 1965 to permit a funeral mass in the church of Saint Louis des Invalides for the 98-year-old general who had served France faithfully and well.
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