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
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]
Battle of France
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The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of the Low Countries and France during the Second World War. The plan for the invasion of the Low Countries and France w
Maurice Gamelin
…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 dismissal during the Battle of France in May 1940. The strategic choices Gamelin made ultimately left France vulnerable to a lightning offensive through the Ardennes and have been extensively…
The Withdrawal from Dunkirk, June 1940 by Charles Cundall
French soldiers in underground bunkers on the Maginot Line during the Phoney War
French soldier in the German village of Lauterbach in Saarland
The British Army in France, 22 January 1940