- Abbreviations
- Prologue
- Weygand’s Origins and Youth
- His Career as an Officer to 1914
- Foch and the Great War
- Versailles
- Warsaw, 1920
- Syria, the C.S.G., and Prepration for Command
- Weygand’s Political Personality Emerges
- Chapter 1: Weygand’s Appointment and the Army of 1930
- Politics and the Appointment
- The Post-1919 Military Reforms and the Setting of the Civil-Military Problem
- Chapter 2: The Disarmament Crisis, 1930–1935
- Weygand’s and Gamelin’s Attitudes Toward Disarmament
- The Clash with the Government, 1932–1934
- Effects on the Civil-Military Relationship
- Chapter 3: The Effectives Crisis, 1930–1935
- The Problem of Effectives and Weygand’s Policy
- The Struggle with Daladier and the Command Crisis of December 1933
- The Stalemate with Pétain, 1934
- Gamelin’s “Final Solution,” 1935
- Chapter 4: The Military Crises and Doctrine, 1934–1940
- Weygand’s Retirement in 1935
- The Path to 1940 and the Three Great Problems of the 1930s
- French Military Doctrine and de Gaulle’s Challenge of 1934
- The Command’s Reaction: Theory
- The Command’s Reaction: Rearmament
- The Military Crises and Doctrinal Failure
- The Command’s Guardianship of the Army and Doctrinal Failure
- Doctrine, Guardianship, and 1940
- Chapter 5: The Military Crises and Political Instability, 1934–1940
- The Command Crisis of December 1933 and the Origins of the Sixth of February, 1934
- The Military Crises and the Outcome of the Political Upheaval
- Weygand and the de Lattre Affair
- The Soldiers and the Problem of Political Instability
- Civilian Reaction and the New Boulangism
- The Army’s Guardianship of the Nation
- Chapter 6: The Military Crises and Relations between Army, Nation, and Regime
- The Army and the Nation
- The Soldier and the State
- Politico-Military Crisis and the Conflict of Loyalties
- Weygand and the Problem of Responsibility to the Nation Before 1940
- Chapter 7: Weygand and the Soldiers’ Outlook on Politics, 1935–1939
- Weygand and His Retirement “Mission”: National Conditions
- The Franco-Soviet Pact of 1936
- The Fruits of Despair
- The New Malaise Militaire and the Three “Affairs” of 1937–1938: the “Spanish Document,” “Corvignolles,” and the C.S.A.R.
- Weygand and the New Appel au Soldat
- Soldiers and Politics on the Eve of the War: Weygand Recalled to Service
- Chapter 8: 1940
- The Background of Conflict
- Weygand’s Military Decisions, May 21–May 26
- Reynaud’s Dilemma
- Weygand’s Intervention in Politics
- The meaning of 1940
- Epilogue
- Weygand at Vichy in 1940
- Weygand in North Africa, 1940–1941
- Weygand in Captivity and on Trial, 1942–1948
- Rehabilitation
- The Civil-Military Struggle of the 1950s
- Weygand and the new Army in Politics
- The Françis-Drapeau
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES

Harvard Historical Studies 81
Maxime Weygand and Civil-Military Relations in Modern France
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Publication Date: 01/01/1967