Register of the Edouard Jean Réquin papers

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Title: Edouard Jean Réquin papers

Date (inclusive): 1915-1940

Collection Number: XX294

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: In French

Physical Description: 4 manuscript boxes (1.6 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, military orders, memoranda, and writings, relating to Allied military operations in World War I, particularly Franco-American military cooperation; to proposals for a treaty of mutual assistance under auspices of the League of Nations, 1922-1923; and to operations of the French 4e Armee, 1940 May-June

Creator: Réquin, Edouard, 1879-1953

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[Identification of item], Edouard Jean Réquin Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1879	Born
1900-1911	Member of expedition to North Africa
1916-1918	Member, General Staff of Marshals Joffre and Foch
1917-1918	Member, French Military Delegation to Washington
1919	Technical Counsellor at Versailles Peace Conference
	Author, La Course de l'Amérique à la Victoire
1924	Author, Projet de Traité d'Assistance Mutuelle
1930	French Military Representative at the League of Nations
1930-1932	Chief of Cabinet of Ministry of War
1938	Member, Supreme Council of War
1939-1940	Commander, 4th French Army
1941	Retired
1945	President, Société de la Légion d'Honneur
1946	Author, Archinard et le Soudan
	Author, Combats pour l'Honneur
	"Président des anciens officiers de liaison près l'armée américaine"
1949	Author, D'une guerre à l'autre 1919-1939. Souvenirs
1953	Died

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Officers

World War, 1914-1918 -- United States

World War, 1914-1918 -- France

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France

United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

France. Armée

League of Nations

France. Armée. Armée, 4e

Correspondence 1918

Scope and Contents note

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

box 1

Gompers, Samuel 1918

box 1

Harbord, General 1918

Speeches and Writings 1918-1940

Scope and Contents note

Typewritten manuscripts of writings arranged alphabetically by title.

box 1

"La IVe Armée en Lorraine. Attaque allemande des 12-13 et 14 mai 1940" (The 4th Army in Lorraine. German attack of May 12-13 and 14, 1940) 1940.

General Physical Description note: One typewritten copy of a personal account

La Course de l'Amérique à la Victoire (America's Race to Victory) 1919

box 1

Text. One typewritten copy

box 1

Related material, including correspondence with Mr. Baker, U.S. Secretary of War; Mr. Churchill, Director of Military Intelligence; Marshal Foch, Commander in Chief of the Allied Armies; the French Ministry of War; a preface by General March, U.S. Army Chief of Staff

box 1

Statement on the military accomplishments of France and her allies during World War I, to be included in the third edition of the Handbook of the War prepared by the National Security League 1918.

General Physical Description note: One typewritten copy, including correspondence with the National Security League

Traité d'Assistance Mutuelle, Projet de (Project for a Treaty of Mutual Assistance), eventually published in 1924

box 2

Project presented by Edouard Jean Réquin 1923

box 2

Project presented by Lord Robert Cécil 1922-1923

box 2

Project presented by the League of Nations' Comité Special in London, and the Commission Temporaire in Paris 1923

Subject File 1915-1940

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, arranged alphabetically by topic.

Collaboration Franco-américaine (Franco-American Collaboration) 1917-1918

Memoranda and notes by Edouard Jean Réquin, from W.,D.C., including a list of the documents, established by him

box 3

1917

box 3

1918

Memoranda and notes by others

box 3

1917

box 3

1918

Reports by Edouard Jean Réquin

box 4

May 1917-December 1917

box 4

January 1918-April 1918

box 4

May 1918-October 1918

Telegrams

box 4

Sent by Edouard Jean Réquin from W.,D.C. May 1917-February 1918

box 4

Sent by the French Ministry of War from Paris May 1917-May 1918

box 4

Direction de la Guerre (Direction of the War), Memoranda and notes by Edouard Jean Réquin, including a list of the documents, established by him 1915-1917 -

box 4

Opérations de la IVe Armée du 6 au 25 juin 1940 (Operations of the 4th Army from June 6 to June 25, 1940), Official report of the 4th Army's Staff, 3rd Bureau, including maps 1940 - August 2, 1940,