Maxime Weygand (French pronunciation: [vɛɡɑ̃]; 21 January 1867 – 28 January 1965) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II, as well...

Weygand is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Conrad Weygand (1890–1945), German chemist Maxime Weygand (1867–1965), French military commander...

Maxime Weygand, who claimed his first mission as Commander-in-Chief would be to get a good night's sleep. Gamelin's orders were cancelled and Weygand...

mission members included French diplomat, Jean Jules Jusserand, general Maxime Weygand, chief of staff to Marshal Ferdinand Foch (the Supreme Commander of...

the newly formed Ninth Army during the First Battle of the Marne with Maxime Weygand as his chief of staff. Only a week after taking command, with the whole...

modernization plan in 1915. Upon its completion, the street was renamed after Maxime Weygand, the High Commissioner of French-mandated Syria and Lebanon who served...

the Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs, and with the support of Maxime Weygand and Lebrun, Pétain stood firm, which led Laval to withdraw, followed...

Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Weygand, French military commander from World War I and World War II Olympe Maxime, French and is the headmistress...

from Dunkirk, which cost the Allies 61 divisions. French commander Maxime Weygand was faced with the prospect of defending a 965 km (600 mi) front from...

Minister in March. The 67-year-old Gamelin was replaced by the 73-year-old Maxime Weygand, who crucially delayed planned counter-attacks before eventually launching...

General Maxime Weygand claimed that "the French Army was no longer a serious fighting force". Édouard Daladier's new government retaliated against Weygand by...

particularly Vice-Premier Philippe Pétain and Commander-in-Chief General Maxime Weygand, insisted that the responsibility of the government was to remain in...

September 1939, there was almost no fighting, and no bombs were dropped. Maxime Weygand, commander-in-chief; little military activity between the defeat of...

May Reynaud removed commander-in-chief Maurice Gamelin in favour of Maxime Weygand. On 26 May, around lunchtime, Reynaud attended a meeting in London with...

ministers Édouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, former commanders-in-chief Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin, Charles de Gaulle's elder sister Marie-Agnès Cailliau...

larger units and forming a defence in depth, was proposed by General Maxime Weygand in 1940 during the Battle of France. However, Allied forces were unable...

in government. They included French diplomat, Jean Jules Jusserand, Maxime Weygand, chief of staff to Marshal Ferdinand Foch (the Supreme Commander of...

commander was René Altmayer (June 1940). Weygand, Maxime, "Weygand Memoires, Part I", pg. 471 Weygand, Maxime, "Weygand, Memoires, Part I", Paris: Flammarion...

British representative Other members of the delegation included: General Maxime Weygand, Foch's chief of staff (later French commander-in-chief in 1940) Rear-Admiral...

commander-in-chief Maxime Weygand, who congratulated him on saving France's honour and asked for his advice. On 2 June he sent a memo to Weygand vainly urging...

Douglas Haig (Commander of the British Expeditionary Force) 8. General Maxime Weygand (General Foch's Chief of Staff) 9. General Herbert Lawrence (General...

1921 he went to Poland with the French Military Mission under General Maxime Weygand. In 1925, he was made chief of the Second Bureau in the Rif War during...

territory. In June 1923 the French administration, headed by General Maxime Weygand, allowed individual states to elect their own representative councils...

remembrance. In the West, it was mostly Maxime Weygand who had been assigned a veni, vidi, vici kind of role, even though Weygand himself had honestly denied having...

were forced to retreat to the coastline of France. 20 May: General Maxime Weygand replaces General Maurice-Gustave Gamelin as supreme Allied commander...

weapons. French troops were sent into the area, as Général d'armée Maxime Weygand attempted to build up a defence in depth on the south bank of the Somme...

Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick Imperial Russian Army  Russia 1740–1741 Maxime Weygand French Army  France 1940 His rank was général d'armée, but his title...

hold out, and the Italian advance had been contained. Nevertheless, Maxime Weygand signed the surrender instrument and the army was ordered out of their...

Decree 2980, which was issued on 5 December, 1924, by High Commissioner Maxime Weygand and took effect on 1 January, 1925. The decree merged the states of...

was opposed by Darlan's rival, General Maxime Weygand, and the Protocols were never ratified, though Weygand was dismissed at German insistence in November...