Word: esperey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title of Marshal of France will be allowed to disappear by extinction of those now bearing it." Marshals Foch and Fayolle are dead. Remaining of the Marshals of France are: Joseph (Battle of the Marne) Joffre, Henri (Verdun) Petain, Hubert (North Africa) Lyauty, Louis (Balkans) Franchet d'Esperey. None of these is a young man. It will not be long before the last blue-velvet, gold-starred baton disappears from France's parade grounds. Sentimental, the Paris press mourned last week the passing of a rank which goes back to the 12th Century, which has been prefixed...
Joffre Franchet d'Esperey Fayolle...
Foch, Petain, Lyautey, Franchet d'Esperey...
...that place of transcendent glory, there seemed to stand, last week, merely four old men: Foch, 76; Lyautey, 73; Petain, 72; Franchet d'Esperey...
...lavishly illustrated with pictures of towns and old chateaux and provides what was called "a synthesis of France past and present." The preface is in two parts, one written by M. Poincare, the other by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. In it Marshals Foch, Joffre, Petain, Lyautey, Franchet d'Esperey, pay tribute to the military virtues of the Commonwealth armies. And there are messages from President Gaston Doumergue, onetime Premier Georges Clemenceau and many another French notable, as well as some poems by the Countess Mathieu de Noailles. The book ends with a drawing by Jean Louis Forain depicting a poilu...