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THE NEWS 



Oil ()ct(>l)t'r 14th, the Miiseuin wa?^ lioiiorod hv a visit from General 

 Marie iMiiilc I'ayolle, the distiiifj;iii8liod Frencli officer, who, as Foch's 

 represent at iv{> and the official delegate of France, attended the recent 

 iJO'nVention of the American I.ejiion in Cleveland. He was received by 

 President Oshorn. and then escorted by Mr. Madison Grant and Dr. 

 Lucas throuf^h the Hall of the Af2;e of Man and the Dinosaur Hall. 



It will be recalletl that General Fayolle })layed an important role in 

 French military activites from August 14, 1914, until the close of the 

 War, successively leading France's newly organized Seventieth Division 

 of Infantry which met the Germans before Paris in the early days of the 

 war; commanding the Thirty-third Army Corps and later the Sixth 

 Army; leading the French troops sent to relieve Diaz in Italy; and 

 finally directing the Group of Armies of the Reserve which France w^as 

 holding ready to meet Ludendortf' s threatened great offensive of 1918. 

 General Fayolle won lasting fame by his share in France's military- 

 achievement. But Americans think of him primarily as the man under 

 whose supervision our fii-st coml^at divisions received their ])aptism of 

 fire. 



He has frecjuentiy and with enii)hasis exi)re.ssed his admiration and 

 warm regard for the American forces. Of the First Division he said: 

 "Ah, that was a division, that one! I shall never forget its early chiefs, 

 (Jen(>ral Bullard and General Liggett. At Cantigny they went forward 

 with the dash of men ])laying football. After that I would have liked 

 to kee]) them with me always. But then all your divisions were good 

 in their degree. It was a new army, an army of splendid health, good 

 physique, excellent morale." 



At the second Battle of the Marne, General Fayolle was associated 

 with five of our Divisions. He has referred especially to the w^ork of the 

 First, Second, Third, Twenty-sixth and Forty-second, but has also ex- 

 pressed himself as loath to seem tmjust to such other Divisions as did 

 not hai)pen to come under his direct observation. 



It is interesting to note that General Fayolle, a pn^fessional soldiei- 

 and a great general, is keenly interested in the evolutionary history of 

 man, his antiquity and the lines of his development. After that, his 

 scientific interest lies in the evolution of the horse, and then in the 

 subject of dinosaurs. Although his ])rogr.Mm while in this city was of 



