Tinted postcard of Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Made Commander-in-Chief of all Allied forces on the Western Front April 3, 1918, he led the Allies to victory in November.

Maréchal Foch, Notre Vainqueur



Marshal Foch, our Victor



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Undated handwritten message

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Sunday, September 20, 1914

"My family affairs are most distressing. Bécourt and my son killed August 22nd near Joppécourt on the Belgian frontier.

I learned of it September 13th and broke [the news] gently to my wife [who is] still at Ploujean, Finistère. They must have known nothing about it there, and now I tremble to think of the consternation in their midst — of the grief of my poor womenfolk."

Quotation Context

Excerpt from a letter from French General Ferdinand Foch to his friend General Millet, September 20, 1914. His son Germain Foch and son-in-law, husband to his daughter Marie, Paul Bécourt, were both killed August 22.

Source

The Memoirs of Marshal Foch, translated by Col. T. Bentley Mott by Ferdinand Foch, page 98, copyright © 1931 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co., publication date: 1931

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1914-09-20, Foch, Ferdinand Foch