Abstract

AbstractA well‐known and respected figure in France's nineteenth‐century colonial expansion, General Galliéni came out of retirement on the outbreak of war in 1914 and served as military governor of Paris and later as minister of war until his death in May 1916. He exemplifies both the rivalries in the French army during World War I and the struggle to achieve a satisfactory balance in civil—military relations in wartime.

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