The Second Army (French: IIe Armée) was a Field army of the French Army during World War I and World War II. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people The French Army, officially the Armée de Terre (Land Army is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces and its largest World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Army became famous for fighting the Battle of Verdun in 1916 under Petain. The Battle of Verdun was one of the most critical battles in World War I on the Western Front, fought between the German and French Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year
Commanders
World War I
- General de Curières de Castelnau (Mobilization – 21 June 1915)
- General Pétain (21 June 1915 – 1 May 1916)
- General Nivelle (1 May 1916 – 15 December 1916)
- General Guillaumat (15 December 1916 – 11 December 1917)
- General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer (11 December 1917 – Armistice)
World War II
- General Charles Huntziger (2 September 1939 – 5 June 1940)
- General Henry Freydenberg (5 June – 31 July 1940)
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