Henri-Philippe petain was the most obscure of those men who gave their names to the "isms" of Europe's dark years. Born in 1856 into a relatively prosperous peasant family in northern France, he followed-with the help of an uncle who was a priest-one of the classic routes of social mobility, the army. Petain commanded regiments, lectured at the Ecole de Guerre and was about to retire a colonel when the first world war plucked him from mediocrity. By 1918 he was one of only three marshals of France, the country's highest honour.
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机译：亨利·菲利普·佩恩（Henri-Philippe）上尉是那些将名字命名为欧洲黑暗年代“主义”的人中最晦涩的。他于1856年出生于法国北部一个相对繁荣的农民家庭，他在一个是牧师的叔叔的帮助下跟随了军队-这是社会流动的经典途径之一。 Petain指挥团，在古埃尔学院（Ecole de Guerre）上课，并在第一次世界大战使他脱离平庸之际退休。到1918年，他是法国仅有的三名元帅，法国最高荣誉。
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