"Weygand tells us that many of his visitors, French and foreign, were rather shy at finding themselves in the presence of the Chief who had commanded millions of men, and whose name for eight months had embodied all the trust and all the hopes of the Allied nations, the victor in the greatest battle in history. They left his presence impressed by the greatness of his intellect and of his soul, and fascinated by his simplicity. "They made no mistake; they had been in the presence of true greatness, with which there is always simplicity.""
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George Aston, The Biography of the Late Marshal Foch (1929), New York: The Macmillan Company, hardcover, p. 445
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Ferdinand Foch
1851 – 1929
französischer Marschall im Ersten Weltkrieg
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