Maxime Weygand
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Maxime Weygand was a French military commander in World War I and World War II, as well as a high-ranking member of the Vichy regime.
General Weygand c. 1940
Alfred van der Smissen (1823–1895), Weygand's purported biological father
Weygand on Time magazine in 1933
Weygand as a junior officer in the early 1890s
Philippe Pétain
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Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain, better known as Marshal Pétain, was a French military officer who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the Axis-collaboration
Maxime Weygand
…Army during the German invasion. Following a series of military setbacks, Weygand advised armistice and France subsequently capitulated. He joined Philippe Pétain's Vichy regime as Minister for Defence and served until September 1940, when he was appointed Delegate-General in French North Africa. He was noted for…
Pétain in 1941
Pétain in the 1880s
Pétain in 1915. Autochrome portrait by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
Pétain, Haig, Foch and Pershing in 1918