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
Vichy France
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Vichy France, also known as the Pétainist regime and Pétainist France, officially the French State, was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established as a resu
Maxime Weygand
…pronunciation: ; 21 January 1867 – 28 January 1965) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II, as well as a high-ranking member of the Vichy regime. Born in Belgium, Weygand was raised in France and educated at the Saint-Cyr military academy in Paris. After graduating in 1887, he went on to become…
Propaganda poster for the Vichy Regime's Révolution nationale program, 1942
Members of the Milice performing the Roman salute, 1943
French prisoners of war are marched off under German guard, 1940
Pétain meeting Hitler in October 1940