Attaque à outrance (French: Attack to excess) was the expression of a military philosophy common to many armies in the period before and during the earlier...

was then in stark contrast to the prevailing orthodoxy of Attaque à outrance. He was also a long-time advocate of the modern armoured warfare ideas applied...

lives needlessly (which had been atypical earlier in the war, see Attaque à outrance). From 1919 to 1924, Gamelin was the head of the French military mission...

determination to close with the bayonet provides textbook example of attaque à outrance philosophy inculcated in all ranks of the French army in the run up...