Marie Emile Fayolle, French First World War general Product:Canvas Plate 16 from Herbarium Blackwellianum

Plate 16 from Herbarium Blackwellianum

The great telescope seen from the north at a slight angle to the view selected for figure 8 of plate 24

'Stand Coachman

a peep into the Shakespeare-Gallery'

Lord Lansdowne statue

Marie Emile Fayolle, French First World War general Product:Canvas Plate 16 from Herbarium BlackwellianumMarie Emile Fayolle, French First World War general, (1926). A general with a background in the artillery, Fayolle (1858 1926) was brought out of retirement when war broke out in 1914. He commanded the French Sixth Army on the right flank of the British during the Somme Offensive in 1916. He then commanded the First Army before being transferred to the Italian Front when French forces were deployed there to assist the Italians in November 1917.