Maxime Weygand (French pronunciation: [vɛɡɑ̃]; 21 January 1867 – 28 January 1965) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II, as well...

Weygand is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Conrad Weygand (1890–1945), German chemist Maxime Weygand (1867–1965), French military commander...

the newly formed Ninth Army during the First Battle of the Marne with Maxime Weygand as his chief of staff. Only a week after taking command, with the whole...

Maxime Weygand, who claimed his first mission as Commander-in-Chief would be to get a good night's sleep. Gamelin's orders were cancelled and Weygand...

mission members included French diplomat, Jean Jules Jusserand, general Maxime Weygand, chief of staff to Marshal Ferdinand Foch (the Supreme Commander of...

Maxime Verhagen, former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Weygand, French military commander from World War I and World War II Olympe Maxime,...

his predecessor, Maxime Weygand, a fiery right-wing Catholic had spoken on matters well outside of his purview. For an example, Weygand had suggested that...

the Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs, and with the support of Maxime Weygand and Lebrun, Pétain stood firm, which led Laval to withdraw, followed...

General Maxime Weygand and Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel, who all feel that de Gaulle is not fit for office. Following his visit to Weygand, who was aiming...

General Maxime Weygand claimed that "the French Army was no longer a serious fighting force". Édouard Daladier's new government retaliated against Weygand by...

September 1939, there was almost no fighting, and no bombs were dropped. Maxime Weygand, commander-in-chief; little military activity between the defeat of...

ministers Édouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, former commanders-in-chief Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin, Charles de Gaulle's elder sister Marie-Agnès de...

from Dunkirk, which cost the Allies 61 divisions. French commander Maxime Weygand was faced with the prospect of defending a 965 km (600 mi) front from...

particularly Vice-Premier Philippe Pétain and Commander-in-Chief General Maxime Weygand, insisted that the responsibility of the government was to remain in...

modernization plan in 1915. Upon its completion, the street was renamed after Maxime Weygand, the High Commissioner of French-mandated Syria and Lebanon who served...

were forced to retreat to the coastline of France. 20 May: General Maxime Weygand replaces General Maurice-Gustave Gamelin as supreme Allied commander...

the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr. He served on the staffs of Maxime Weygand and Hubert Lyautey. Loustaunau-Lacau replaced Charles de Gaulle on the...

in government. They included French diplomat, Jean Jules Jusserand, Maxime Weygand, chief of staff to Marshal Ferdinand Foch (the Supreme Commander of...

1921 he went to Poland with the French Military Mission under General Maxime Weygand. In 1925, he was made chief of the Second Bureau in the Rif War during...

territory. In June 1923 the French administration, headed by General Maxime Weygand, allowed individual states to elect their own representative councils...

commander was René Altmayer (June 1940). Weygand, Maxime, "Weygand Memoires, Part I", pg. 471 Weygand, Maxime, "Weygand, Memoires, Part I", Paris: Flammarion...

was opposed by Darlan's rival, General Maxime Weygand, and the Protocols were never ratified, though Weygand was dismissed at German insistence in November...

remembrance. In the West, it was mostly Maxime Weygand who had been assigned a veni, vidi, vici kind of role, even though Weygand himself had honestly denied having...

Decree 2980, which was issued on 5 December 1924 by High Commissioner Maxime Weygand and took effect on 1 January 1925. The decree merged the states of Aleppo...

larger units and forming a defence in depth, was proposed by General Maxime Weygand in 1940 during the Battle of France. However, Allied forces were unable...

British representative Other members of the delegation included: General Maxime Weygand, Foch's chief of staff (later French commander-in-chief in 1940) Rear-Admiral...

commander-in-chief Maxime Weygand, who congratulated him on saving France's honour and asked for his advice. On 2 June he sent a memo to Weygand vainly urging...

weapons. French troops were sent into the area, as Général d'armée Maxime Weygand attempted to build up a defence in depth on the south bank of the Somme...

dismissed Commander-in-Chief Maurice Gamelin and replaced him with Maxime Weygand. On 26 May, Reynaud attended a meeting in London with Churchill. During...

Corsehill, brevet lieutenant colonel, military attache, British Army Maxime Weygand, general, French Army Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham, British Awards...