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Weygand

American  
[vey-gahn] / veɪˈgɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Maxime 1867–1965, French general.


Weygand British  
/ vɛɡɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Maxime (maksim). 1867–1965, French general; as commander in chief of the Allied armies in France (1940) he advised the French Government to surrender to Germany

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A weather station at Montague-Yreka Airport has registered three straight days of its highest temperatures on record, Weygand said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2022

Although the politician and former French prime minister Pierre Laval was committed to collaboration, other figures at Vichy, such as Gen. Maxime Weygand, were believed to be more favorable to the Allies.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

But Reynaud, crazily, chose to bring into the cabinet the defeatist generals Pétain and Weygand, and he was under the crucial influence of his equally defeatist lover, Madame de Portes.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018

“It was an abomination,” said Paul Weygand of Mersant International, a courier with offices just outside the airport’s border.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2017

On his departure he recommended Pastor J. A. Weygand, who had been serving the Raritan congregations since his arrival, in 1748, from Halle.

From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by Bente, F. (Friedrich)