Word: petain
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...present six men hold batons of Marshals of France: Generals Joffre. Foch, Lyautey, Fayolle, Franchet d'Esperey, Petain...
...Catholics in Turkey; at Toulon, France. Because, four years ago, he married a Protestant divorcée, the Archbishop of Paris at the last minute forbade Church rites at his funeral in the Saint Louis Chapel of the Invalides. In the presence of les maréchaux Joffre et Petain, Mme. Millerand and other friends, the military rites were conducted on the steps of the chapel...
...Council (of the Allies), one-time Commander-in-Chief of the French armies; in Paris, of double pneumonia. His mother was English, his father a French army captain. He went through the Fontainbleau Artillery School, the Superior War College, served in Africa, China, Algeria. In 1916 he succeeded General Petain at Verdun and arrested the great German push at Douamont and Vaux. After the retirement of Joffre, he led the costly offensive of April, 1917. A year later he was sent to command the troops in Algeria. In 1920 he visited...
...have been included in the French New Year's Honor list with an award of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Upon hearing of the imminence of his death, President Millerand and Marshal Petain went to the hospital and pinned the insignia to his breast shortly before he expired...
Argument between two ex-Premiers of France as to which of them appointed les marechals Foch and Petain to their commands 'during...