Weygand maxime biography of william shakespeare

“We must finish with all these politicans. They’re all the same, one as bad as another.”

Maxime Weygand was born in 1867 to unknown parents in Belgium, with much speculation on that regard even reaching as far as King Leopold II of Belgium as his father.

Regardless, he would claim to ever know his true parentage, and was sent as an infant to France to be raised by a widow in Marseille. He would grow up in different housholds, eventually reaching adulthood and being legally recognized as both a French citizen and adopted son of accountant Francois-Joseph Weygand.

His youth otherwise remains mostly unknown.

Weygand would enter the Saint Cyr Military Academy, graduating in 1887 and entering service with a cavalry regiment after further training at the Samur Cavalry School.

When the Dreyfus Affair came about (a major scandal within the French Third Republic wherin a Jewish officer was accused of treason, leading to major political shockwaves and tensions between