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...been not only Europe's cultural capital, but its favorite battlefield and biggest graveyard. Living men have twice seen France smashed as a nation-in 1870 and in 1940. The French defeat of 1870 has long been associated with the name of Marshal Bazaine. Marshal Pétain has become almost a synonym for the collapse...
Forgotten Man. Most Americans have forgotten Marshal Bazaine, but he was once almost as dangerous to the U.S. as Marshal Pétain. It was Bazaine who conquered Mexico for Emperors Napoleon III of France and Maximilian of Mexico while the U.S. was busy in the Civil...
...reappeared in France. The debacle of 1870 led the disgusted French to put their faith in those who, like Foch, were fanatical believers in the "offensive at all costs." But Bazaine's faith in the defensive, says Author Guedalla, became the faith of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain-the old man through whom "the abject philosophy of salvation by surrender . . . prevailed" in 1940, who "consummated a surrender far beyond the basest imputations of Bazaine's accusers...
...French people have had enough of personal power, autocracy and tyranny. . . . They want a rejuvenated republic, better framed and more democratic, with more social equality. . . . [They] are not sacrificing their lives ... for generals and admirals who have fired on the Allies and served Pétain...
...alone with her in the forest, was hastily mar ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...