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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Weygand, Maxime@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | WEYGAND, MAXIME [Weygand, Maxime ], 1867-1965, French general, b. |
 | | 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 Syria (1923-24), chief of the general staff, and commander in the Middle East (1939-40). |
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