The Écrivélo Files

Journeys Through War-Torn Europe by Bike.

Charles Arsène Victor MARIZY

Charles Arsène Victor MARIZY 1847 - 1930 Marizy Charles Arsène Victor SOURCE: Unknown It's less confusing if you look at the family tree first. Charles Arsène Victor MARIZY was the great-grandfather of the last Chamelet Mayor of the 20th Century, Charles Bréchard.  Charles Arsène MARIZY was M. Bréchard's grandfather and served[...]
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Defeat and Division.

‘A clear-eyed, ambitious and myth-busting account that places the Fall of France in 1940 and De Gaulle’s Free French in a wider scenario that sees Vichy France and its colonial empire as a serious military player down to 1942. A tour de force by a historian who is a master[...]
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