Maurice Gamelin
French military officer (1872–1958)
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Lived 1872–1958, aged 86France
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The French general who planned to outlast Germany in a war of attrition, then watched his army collapse in nine days. Maurice Gamelin commanded the Allied forces in May 1940 when the Wehrmacht punched through the Ardennes — the gap his own troop deployments had left open.
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Gamelin built his reputation in the First World War, helping plan the First Battle of the Marne in 1914 and holding off a German offensive in 1918 while badly outnumbered. He spent the interwar years heading a military mission to Brazil, crushing the Great Syrian Revolt, and climbing to the top of the French Army by 1935. A committed republican, he kept the military out of politics during the Popular Front and counselled caution through every prewar crisis. His strategy for the Second World War banked on a long blockade and slow buildup, but in March 1940 he amended his defensive plan to push…
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