Gamelin and Georges assured Daladier that France had the greatest army in the world and was shocked when the front was broken at Sedan, and according to the then captain Andre Beaufre in his memoirs, when the front was broken, the feeling was that everything was lost and Georges broke down crying at his HQ.

In 1921 Beaufre entered the military academy at École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, where he met the future French president Charles de Gaulle, who was an instructor.

André Beaufre ( 25 January 1902, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 13 February 1975 ) was a French general.

French Indochina, 1952, General Beaufre was the leader of the group for NATO tactical studies.

Beaufre was a general in the Algerian War.

** André Beaufre, French general ( d. 1975 )

* Andre Beaufre French general

Beaufre also commanded the French forces in the 1956 Suez War campaign against Egypt in 1956.

In his book 1940: The Fall of France, Beaufre writes: " The collapse of the French Army is the most important event of the 20th century ".

Beaufre later became chief of the general staff of the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers in Europe in 1958.

Beaufre ended World War II with the rank of colonel.

According to Beaufre, the proper concern of the military should be extended to co-ordinating all aspects of a civil society.

He would pick up the ringing phone with studied negligence, then bark into it with gruff importance.

McFeeley greeted the parents, then studied his notebook.

But then, he hadn't studied very hard.

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

While living in Venice Salieri continued his musical studies with the organist and opera composer Giovanni Battista Pescetti, then following Pescetti's sudden death he studied with the opera singer Ferdinando Pacini or Pasini.

Since then, TCDD has been comprehensively studied.

Bernardino Ochino was born in Siena son of the barber Domenico Ochino, and at the age of 7 or 8 around 1504 was entrusted to the Minorite order of Franciscan Friars, then from 1510 he studied medicine at Perugia.

She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.

Generally, children first studied the Chinese characters with rote memorization of the Three Character Classic and Hundred Family Surnames, then went on to memorize the other classics, in order to ascend in the social hierarchy.

Arminjon, Nolde, and Wolff believed that, for purposes of classifying the ( then ) contemporary legal systems of the world, it was required that those systems per se get studied, irrespective of external factors, such as geographical ones.

The family then moved to Dresden and he studied at the Staatsgymnasium (“ Royal Gymnasium ” until 1918 ) in Dresden-Neustadt and completed his high school education there.

Following his military service, Stoiber studied political science and then, in the fall 1962 in Munich, law.

He then studied medicine in Berlin and Würzburg, particularly with Albert von Kölliker, Franz Leydig, Rudolf Virchow ( with whom he later worked briefly as assistant ), and with anatomist-physiologist Johannes Peter Müller ( 1801 – 1858 ).

He then followed the advice he found in Hippocrates ' teaching and travelled and studied widely including such destinations as Smyrna ( now Izmir ), Corinth, Crete, Cilicia ( now Çukurova ), Cyprus, and finally the great medical school of Alexandria, exposing himself to the various schools of thought in medicine.

Giovanni d ' Andrea was born at Rifredo, near Florence, and studied Roman law and canon law at the University of Bologna, the great law school of the age, where he distinguished himself in this subject so much that he was made professor at Padua, and then at Pisa before returning to Bologna, where he remained from the season of 1301-02 until his death, save for brief seasons at Padua 1307-09 and 1319.

In 1856, he received the first Mendelssohn Scholarship and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and then at Leipzig, where he also took up conducting.

He interviewed witnesses, evaluated oral histories, studied multiple sources and then pronounced his particular version.

Isomorphisms are studied in mathematics in order to extend insights from one phenomenon to others: if two objects are isomorphic, then any property that is preserved by an isomorphism and that is true of one of the objects, is also true of the other.

If an isomorphism can be found from a relatively unknown part of mathematics into some well studied division of mathematics, where many theorems are already proved, and many methods are already available to find answers, then the function can be used to map whole problems out of unfamiliar territory over to " solid ground " where the problem is easier to understand and work with.

After three years he studied the subject in Paris ( University of Paris ), then in 1749 took the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Leyden with a thesis on blood circulation.

Haydn recommended his friend Albrechtsberger, with whom Beethoven then studied harmony and counterpoint.

He then studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating at the age of 21 years with honours in all subjects.

Julian studied Neoplatonism in Asia Minor in 351, at first under Aedesius, the philosopher, and then Neoplatonic theurgy from Aedesius ' student, Maximus of Ephesus.

He probably then studied etching with Antonio Tempesta in Florence, where he lived from 1612 to 1621.

He wiped his lips with a sleeve, then stared at Clayton in a childish kind of wonder.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.

This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.

He half sat up and scratched at the hair on his forehead and then, more vigorously, between his legs.

It was only then that he turned to look at Penny.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

Taking aim at the man's face, Matsuo squeezed the trigger up to the point of discharge, and then he changed his mind.

at first gratingly, caught by grains of corn -- then with a clash into its slot.

Slug the kid, grab his dough -- at least enough to get to Philadelphia -- and then have a rockin' ball with the doll.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

( After graduation from the University of Chicago, Paula taught for two years in the normal school at Valley City, North Dakota, then two years at Princeton ( Illinois ) Township High School.