Was he seen as a traitor by an average french?
>>3208768
I feel like it might depend on region to region.
>>3208768
French here, it depend a lot, he still the WW1 hero, but he is also the collabo guy.
So, we try to not think too much about him, we talk about the vichy gouvnement but not so much about him in particular.
Why he surrender so easy on wwII and fight so hard on wwI?
>>3208803
probably because world war 1 had such an incredible amount of meaningless casualties, no person in his right mind would let his country go through the same horror again.
>>3208814
This. After Verdun France had kind of a "never let this happen again" attitude