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Aged 74, Hero Marshal Henri Philippe Petain had the French Government puzzled last week by his recent announcement: "I desire to be buried among those who died under my command...
...French Cabinet, it was decided that "the dignity of the 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...
Nobly borne upon a rumbling gun carriage came the coffin of Fayolle, he who succeeded Petain and held Verdun through the dire summer of 1917. Like most of the French Marshals, he was once a Professor at the Ecole de Guerre; and time has vindicated his numerous original doctrines de la concentration des feux et des moyens (theories of laying down a barrage...
...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...