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Maxime Weygand

1867 - 1965

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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 as a high ranking member of the Vichy regime. Born in Belgium, Weygand was raised in France and educated at the Saint-Cyr military academy in Paris. After graduating in 1887, he went on to become an instructor at the Cavalry School at Saumur. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maxime Weygand has received more than 755,530 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Maxime Weygand is the 188th most popular military personnel (up from 210th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 69th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Military Personnel.

Weygand was a French general who was the supreme commander of the Allied forces in France in World War II. He is most famous for his "Rallying the French" speech, which he gave on June 18, 1940, after the Germans invaded France.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Maxime Weygand ranks 188 out of 2,058. Before him are Parmenion, Felix Steiner, Mardonius, Josip Jelačić, Mikhail Frunze, and Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine. After him are Ernst Busch, Johannes Blaskowitz, Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, and Giovanni Giustiniani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Maxime Weygand ranks 16. Before him are Mary of Teck, Käthe Kollwitz, John Galsworthy, Natsume Sōseki, Prince Maximilian of Baden, and Walther Rathenau. After him are Johannes Fibiger, Władysław Reymont, Pierre Bonnard, Enrique Granados, Stanley Baldwin, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Among people deceased in 1965, Maxime Weygand ranks 14. Before him are Moshe Sharett, Stan Laurel, Edward Victor Appleton, Eli Cohen, Louise Mountbatten, and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. After him are Hermann Staudinger, T. S. Eliot, W. Somerset Maugham, Paul Hermann Müller, Helena Rubinstein, and Nat King Cole.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Maxime Weygand ranks 64 out of 1,190. Before him are François Englert (1932), Léon Degrelle (1906), James Ensor (1860), Hugo van der Goes (1440), Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559), and Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580). After him are Johannes Ockeghem (1410), Herman Van Rompuy (1947), Carlota of Mexico (1840), Adolphe Quetelet (1796), John of Gaunt (1340), and Quentin Matsys (1466).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Belgium

Among military personnels born in Belgium, Maxime Weygand ranks 3. Before him are Charles Martel (688), and Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559). After him are Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787), Charles Eugène de Croÿ (1651), Johann Peter Beaulieu (1725), Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880), Nicholas, Count of Salm (1459), Gérard Leman (1851), and William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (1020).

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