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France, however, was another story. As it had during many months of facile prophecy, the democratic world looked to France to provide the first mighty upset to Hitler's calculations. Did not France's spruce, civilized generals, packed with the lore of St. Cyr. command the smartest army in the world? Was it not based on the impregnable subterranean bastions of the Maginot Line? Furthermore, in these early days of September 1939, the Maginot Line was widely regarded, not as a defensive masterpiece alone, but also as an ideal point of departure for an invasion of Germany. Amateur...
...place on the rue de la Huchette, was pummeling with his folded umbrella a young man who bore him a strong family resemblance." The young man fled into the Hotel du Caveau. His name was Pierre Vautier. It turned out that he had defied his father by quitting St. Cyr (the French West Point) and taking a job in an art gallery. "It was a small gallery that specialized in ultramodern paintings of the neo-Cubistic school, the sight or mention of which had, on many occasions, nearly proven disastrous to the father's brittle arteries. Vautier the Elder...
Charles Léon Clement Huntziger was a fine professional soldier from his cadet days at Saint-Cyr to his 1940 command of France's Second Army, when he made a bitter-end stand against the Nazis at the Meuse. Marshal Pétain picked him, as a properly brave, dignified warrior, to sign the armistice with Germany in Compiegne forest...
While no definite schedule has yet been arranged, one of the best-known titles which will be exhibited is "Trois St. Cyr," a story about the "West Point" of France. "Sarajevo" deals with the inside story of Archduke Ferdinand's assassination...
...wounded three times in World War I, was captured and escaped five times, only to be recaptured each time. (Psychological note; De Gaulle's two chief lieutenants, Generals Petit and Catroux, were also notable escapists.) After the war De Gaulle became Professor of Military History at Saint Cyr, afterwards a student at the Staff College. Between 1932 and 1936 he was general secretary of the Superior Council of National Defense, from which vantage point he observed the conditions which led to his two prophetic books...