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Maurice Gustave Gamelin

Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Maurice Gamelin was the commander in chief of French forces at the outbreak of World War II. Blamed for the disastrous French defeat in May 1940, he spent most of the rest of the war in confinement, being finally released in 1945.
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