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  Maxime Weygand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Weygand was elected a member of the Académie française (seat #35) in 1931.
Weygand in World War II Weygand was recalled to active service by Edouard Daladier in August 1939 to head the French forces in the Middle East, where although France had been at war only with Germany, he had prepared his troops for a takeover by force against Soviet oil fields.
Weygand has acquired a reputation as an opponent of collaboration, when he protested in Vichy against the Protocols of Paris of 28 May 1941, signed by Admiral Darlan, agreements which alloted bases to the Axis in Alep (Syria), Bizerte and Dakar, and envisaged a military collaboration with Axis forces in the event of Allied response.
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Weygand was recalled to active service by Edouard Daladier[For more, click on this link] in August 1939 to head the French forces in the Middle East Middle East quick summary:
Weygand was recalled to active service by Edouard Daladier in August 1939 to head the French forces in the Middle East, EHandler: no quick summary.
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 AllRefer.com - Maxime Weygand (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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).
After the Franco-German armistice (June), Weygand served in the Vichy government as minister of defense, delegate general to French Africa, and governor-general of Algeria.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Maxime Weygand
Maxime Weygand (1867-1965) served as Ferdinand Foch's deputy for the entirety of the First World War.
It was Weygand who read the armistice conditions to the German delegation in a railway carriage at Compiegne.
Weygand's post-war career was, in light of his association with Foch, a successful one.
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 Maxime Weygand
In 1923 Weygand was appointed as high commissioner in Syria and held the post until becoming Chief of General Staff in 1930.
Weygand was forced to retire from the army in 1935 when he reached the age of sixty-eight.
This resulted in Weygand being arrested by the Schutz Staffeinel (SS) and was imprisoned until being liberated on 5th May 1945.
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The most spectacular was the Maxim silencer for explosive weapons (1908), but perhaps more useful were silencers for gasoline engines and the like.
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Maxime Weygand - Weygand, Maxime, 1867–1965, French general, b.
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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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