Noel de Castelnau, French World War I general mb-code AX010454 on the mania for collecting

on the mania for collecting English portraits

is showing Queen Victoria the British stockpile of gunpowder

With a dedicatory epistle to Henry

Napoleon on a plate ready to be carved

Noel de Castelnau, French World War I general mb-code AX010454 on the mania for collectingNoel de Castelnau, French World War I general, (1926). Castelnau (1851 1944) was a leading exponent of the 'offensive spirit' which dominated France's strategy and tactics in the war until the dismissal of Robert Nivelle as French Commander in Chief in 1917. He commanded the French Second Army in its unsuccessful attempt to recapture the province of Lorraine in the early stages of the war.