Acting
Ferdinand Foch
Born — Died
1851-10-02 — 1929-03-20
Place of birth
Tarbes
Known for
Acting
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3 titles
Ferdinand Foch, maréchal de France, de Grande-Bretagne et de Pologne, est un officier général et académicien français. Il fut le commandant-en-chef des forces alliées sur le front de l'Ouest pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Durant la Grande Guerre, il commande le 20e corps d'armée de Nancy, appartenant à la IIe armée du général de Castelnau. Le 14août1914, pendant la bataille de Lorraine, son corps avança vers la ligne Sarrebourg-Morhange, subissant de lourdes pertes. La déroute du 15e corps à sa droite le contraignant, cependant, à la retraite. Foch parvint à bien gérer la situation en couvrant la retraite pour livrer la bataille du Grand Couronné qui couvre Nancy. Il empêche les Allema…
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7.0On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaboration with the Nazis. A black page in the history of France, written by a man whom many then considered a hero: the winner of Verdun.
Pétain, such a popular hero
2010
5.0August 1914: wife and mother, woman's first sacrifice is to see her beloved depart for the front. In a city, she works in railway stations,as a waitress or even as a chimney sweep. At the factory, she only interrupts her work to feed her baby. At the country she does the plowing or picks olives. But above all a wife, she brings the soldier "fraternity and tenderness", parcels, love notes and care. She brings flowers to the dead's tombs, and remains ever present in the soldier's heart.
La femme française pendant la guerre
1918
NRA documentary of the joint effort of four Allied nations in overcoming the armies of Germany in the First World War, from the initial outbreak of war to the celebration of the Armistice, which occurred only six days before this film's release.
Under Four Flags
1918
Film credits
1910s · 2 titles
5.0August 1914: wife and mother, woman's first sacrifice is to see her beloved depart for the front. In a city, she works in railway stations,as a waitress or even as a chimney sweep. At the factory, she only interrupts her work to feed her baby. At the country she does the plowing or picks olives. But above all a wife, she brings the soldier "fraternity and tenderness", parcels, love notes and care. She brings flowers to the dead's tombs, and remains ever present in the soldier's heart.
La femme française pendant la guerre
1918
NRA documentary of the joint effort of four Allied nations in overcoming the armies of Germany in the First World War, from the initial outbreak of war to the celebration of the Armistice, which occurred only six days before this film's release.
Under Four Flags
1918