• Thumbnail for Maxime Weygand
    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...
    62 KB (7,445 words) - 22:14, 12 September 2024
  • Weygand is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Conrad Weygand (1890–1945), German chemist Maxime Weygand (1867–1965), French military commander...
    425 bytes (79 words) - 22:48, 16 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ferdinand Foch
    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...
    65 KB (7,318 words) - 22:39, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interallied Mission to Poland
    mission members included French diplomat, Jean Jules Jusserand, general Maxime Weygand, chief of staff to Marshal Ferdinand Foch (the Supreme Commander of...
    2 KB (230 words) - 21:58, 22 February 2024
  • Maxime Verhagen, former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Weygand, French military commander from World War I and World War II Olympe Maxime,...
    2 KB (292 words) - 23:11, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of France
    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...
    171 KB (22,825 words) - 17:51, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rue Weygand
    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...
    4 KB (445 words) - 15:29, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Government of Vichy France
    the Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs, and with the support of Maxime Weygand and Lebrun, Pétain stood firm, which led Laval to withdraw, followed...
    84 KB (8,853 words) - 22:51, 13 August 2024
  • July 1937 then re-mobilised on 21 May 1940 on the orders of general Maxime Weygand. On 24 May he was put in command of 10th Army, with which he tried to...
    2 KB (197 words) - 10:37, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maurice Gamelin
    Minister in March. The 67-year-old Gamelin was replaced by the 73-year-old Maxime Weygand, who crucially delayed planned counter-attacks before eventually launching...
    28 KB (3,751 words) - 03:47, 14 September 2024