Maxime Weygand

January 21, 1867 – January 28, 1965

French general; succeeded Maurice Gamelin as Allied supreme commander during the Battle of France, 19 May to 22 June 1940.

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Military service

• French Army General

Affiliations

Education

• Lycée Louis-le-Grand
• École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr

Timeline

1868

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1931

1938

1945

1952

1959

 

Maxime Weygand

 

World War I

 

Armistice of 11 November 1918

 

Polish–Soviet War

 

World War II

 

Battle of France

 

German invasion of Belgium (1940)

 

Battle of Dunkirk

 

Battle of Abbeville