Maurice Gamelin
✶September 20, 1872
†April 18, 1958
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✶September 20, 1872
†April 18, 1958
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Maurice Gustave Gamelin was a French general who served as head of the French Army from 1935 and as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in France from the outbreak of the Second World War to his dismissal during the Battle of France in May 1940. The strategic choices Gamelin made ultimately left France vulnerable to a lightning offensive through the Ardennes and have been extensively criticised by historians.
French military officer (1872–1958)
Biography from the article Maurice Gamelin on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.