My Own Private Maginot
Don’t fight old wars, live now.
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4 min readOct 8, 2021
I love French. Culture. Film. Language.
Andrė Maginot is a favorite story.
He was minister of war in 1929.
Ignoring the lesson of Pericles and the Spartans regarding fortress walls, Maginot remembered how German artillery often failed to breach during the First World War.
