Weygand initially fought against the Germans during the invasion of France in 1940, but then surrendered to and collaborated with the Germans as part of the Vichy France regime.

In June, Weygand was appointed by Pétain to the Bordeaux-Vichy cabinet as Minister for National Defence for three months ( June to September 1940 ), and then Delegate-General to the North African colonies.

Foch was then selected to command the newly formed Ninth Army during the First Battle of the Marne with Maxime Weygand as his Chief of Staff.

A plan by General Maxime Weygand to close this gap included an attack by Frankforce, with the British 5th Infantry Division holding the line of the river Scarpe to the east of Arras, while the other two formations attacked to the south of that city.

The tactic was proposed by General Maxime Weygand during the Battle of France in 1940.

Maxime Weygand ( 21 January 1867 – 28 January 1965 ; ) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II.

They included: French diplomat, Jean Jules Jusserand ; Maxime Weygand, chief of staff to Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Supreme Commander of the victorious Entente ; and British diplomat, Lord Edgar Vincent D ' Abernon.

They included the French diplomat, Jean Jules Jusserand ; Maxime Weygand, chief of staff to Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Supreme Commander of the victorious Entente ; and the British diplomat, Lord Edgar Vincent D ' Abernon.

Upon reaching adulthood, Weygand was legally acknowledged as a son by Francois-Joseph Weygand, an accountant in the employ of M. Cohen de Léon, thereby granting him French citizenship.

Weygand arrived on May 17 and started by cancelling the side counter-offensive ordered by Gamelin, to cut off the enemy armoured columns which had punched through the French front at the Ardennes.

With the complicity of the Recteur ( University chancellor ) G. Hardy, Weygand instituted, on his own authority, by a mere " note de service n ° 343QJ " of 30 September 1941, a school " numerus clausus " ( quota ), driving out from the colleges and from the primary schools most of the Jewish pupils, including small children aged 5 to 11.

Weygand did this without any decree of Marshal Philippe Pétain's, " by analogy ," he said, " to the law about Higher Education ".

Weygand acquired a reputation as an opponent of collaboration when he protested, in Vichy, against the Protocols of Paris of 28 May 1941 signed by Admiral Darlan, agreements which granted bases to the Axis in Aleppo ( Syria ), Bizerte ( Tunisia ), and Dakar ( Senegal ) and envisaged an extensive military collaboration with Axis forces in the event of Allied countermeasures.

Nevertheless, the Weygand General Delegation ( 4th Office ) collaborated with Germany by delivering to Rommel's Afrika Korps 1200 French trucks and other French army vehicles ( Dankworth contract of 1941 ), as well as heavy artillery pieces accompanied with 1000 shells per gun.

In June 1923, French administration, headed by General Maxime Weygand, decided allow the individual states to elect their own Representative Councils.

Wilson's funeral was a public affair attended by Lloyd George and the cabinet, Foch, Nivelle and Weygand from France as well as many of his former army colleagues including French, Macready, Haig and Robertson.

In January 1918, in accordance with Lloyd George ’ s wishes, an Executive Board was set up to control the planned Allied General Reserve, with Clemenceau ’ s agreement being obtained by having Foch rather than Weygand on it.

He was elected to a full six-year term in 2000, defeating Democratic candidate then-U. S. Representative Robert Weygand by a 57 percent to 41 percent margin in the heavily Democratic state.

* 1997 Architecture de Le Corbusier, texts by Lucien Weygand and Jacques Sbriglio, Hôtel du département, Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône

Weygand informed him that it had informally been decided to procure the AMR Citroën Kégresse P 28, a half-track made by Renault's competitor Citroën.

Late in 1932 — this is known by a later confirming letter dated 18 December 1932 — Renault had a meeting with General Weygand, during which he proposed to develop an entire family of light armoured fighting vehicles based on the AMR 33-chassis.

Weygand had traveled to Warsaw in the expectation of assuming command of the Polish Army, but had found a disappointing reception, aggravated by the fact that around the same time France have frozen its financial aid to Poland.

French military doctrine still relegated tanks to the role of supporting the infantry, a situation that did not change until Weygand took command.

Baudouin was present on the morning of 24 May when General Weygand reported to Reynaud and Pétain that " the situation is very grave ".

Weygand was born in Brussels of unknown parents.

Clemenceau wanted to have Foch ( French Army Chief of Staff ) as French Military Representative on the Supreme War Council ( formally established 7 November 1917 ), to increase French control over the Western Front, but was persuaded to appoint Weygand as a more independent general instead.

Weygand was promoted Général de Division ( equivalent to the Anglophone rank of Major General ) in 1918.

In 1918 Weygand served on the armistice negotiations, and it was Weygand who read out the armistice conditions to the Germans at Compiègne, in the twice infamous railway carriage.

Weygand was briefly sent to Poland as member of Interallied Mission to Poland during July and August 1920.

Subsequently, for many years, the myth that the timely arrival of Allied forces saved Poland was begun, a myth in which Weygand occupies the central role.

He was the first uncomprehending victim, as well as the chief beneficiary, of a legend already in circulation that he, Weygand, was the victor of Warsaw.

Weygand was unemployed for a time after the military mission to Poland, but in 1923 he was made commander-in-chief Levant, the French mandate in Lebanon and Syria.

Weygand was apparently favorable to collaboration with Germany, but with discretion.

One year later, in November 1942, following the Allied invasion of North Africa, Weygand was arrested.

In December 1924, French General Maxime Weygand announced the secession of the State of Alawites, which was proclaimed independent in 1925.

As far as General Maxime Weygand was concerned, " if the Germans crossed the Seine and the Marne, it was the end.

Weygand had avoided using the word armistice, but it was on the minds of all those involved.

Once promoted to Captain, Weygand chose not to attempt the difficult preparation to the Advanced War College (' Haute Ecole de Guerre ') because of his desire, he said, to keep contact with the troops.

Weygand travelled to Warsaw in the expectation of assuming command of the Polish army, yet he met with a very disappointing reception.

In 1939 he was charged with protecting French overseas trade as well as the north coast of France, and the following year General Maxime Weygand named him as Commander-in-Chief of the northern naval forces.

As there was an insufficient budget to equip even a limited part of the Infantry with fully tracked vehicles this plan was abandoned, but on 20 March 1933 Renault received an order from the STMAC ( Section Technique des Matériels Automobiles de Combat ) to develop a prototype of a different design discussed with Weygand: a command vehicle corresponding to the specifications of 9 January 1931 for a so-called Type M.