The Grand Quartier Général was the general headquarters of the French Army during the Second World War. Originally established in 1911, GQG was re-established on the outbreak of war in 1939. The origi
The chateau at Montry, home of the GQG staff from 18 January – 8 June 1940
Maurice Gamelin, commander-in-chief of GQG 1939-40
The keep of Château de Vincennes, which housed Gamelin's staff
General Georges with British Expeditionary Force commander Lord Gort in January 1940
Maurice Gamelin
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Maurice Gustave Gamelin was a French general who served as head of the French Army from 1935 and as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in France from the outbreak of the Second World War to his d
Grand Quartier Général (1939–1940)
…staff between Vincennes and a number of more distant towns (including the staff of the important North-East army). The French chief of staff, General Maurice Gamelin, found this situation unworkable and instituted reforms in January 1940. The changes upset the North-East army commander General Alphonse Joseph Georges…
General Gamelin in September 1939
Gamelin depicted on an August 1918 cover of Le Pays de France
![March 1919 article in the Brazilian magazine Fon-Fon [pt] on Gamelin's appointment](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Fon_Fon_mar%C3%A7o_1919_A_Miss%C3%A3o_Militar_Franceza.jpg/500px-Fon_Fon_mar%C3%A7o_1919_A_Miss%C3%A3o_Militar_Franceza.jpg)
March 1919 article in the Brazilian magazine Fon-Fon [pt] on Gamelin's appointment
![Foreground (L-R): Weygand, Minister of War Joseph Paul-Boncour, and Gamelin during September 1932 military exercises [fr]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Maxime_Weygand%2C_Joseph_Paul-Boncour%2C_Maurice_Gamelin%2C_1932.jpg/500px-Maxime_Weygand%2C_Joseph_Paul-Boncour%2C_Maurice_Gamelin%2C_1932.jpg)
Foreground (L-R): Weygand, Minister of War Joseph Paul-Boncour, and Gamelin during September 1932 military exercises [fr]