Was France victorious over Germans in WWI?

Answer 1

The Allied forces were victorious

Answer 2

France became victorious over the German Reich in WWI.
The France Nation was part of the alliance against the "Dreikaiserbund" (So called the German the alliance between Germany, the Austrian-Hungary Empire, Italy and later also the Ottoman Empire), which defeated the Germans in 1918. The France army had stopped the German invasion
in 1915, but the final collapse of the German Army started with the arrival of the US Army at the French battlefields.
I hope my English isn't to bad for you. With greetings from Germany, Dirk (also known as finsterwasser)

Answer 3

yes and no. The French took up the brunt of Allied casualties in World War One losing 1.5 million people out of a population of 40 million which is devastating. Yes France with the help of Britain and others helped win World War One but in the end, France's weakening due to the war contributed to its lax response to Nazism before the invasion of Poland.

So you see France sacrificed alot to be beated in the next war.

*** To France bashers America didn't save France. Germany was pretty much defeated after its failure in Verdun and the Somme. America's role in the war was limited but they did help France during the last German offensive in 1918

Answer 4

There are some strange bits of “history” in a couple of the earlier answers: neither the fate of the Ottoman Empire, nor the non-contemporary Dreikaiserbund, have any real bearing on the question you asked.

As some earlier answers state, the correct answer to your question is: Yes, France was victorious over the Germans in WW1 … but that France needed a lot of help from its allies in order to win.

Let’s put it this way: -
Without in any sense detracting from the courage and sacrifice of France’s armies in WW1, France would almost certainly have been crushed by Germany (rather than vice versa) if France had not received so much help from its allies.

In 1914, when Germany attacked France, the German army was bigger and better in nearly every respect than the French army. The initial “Schlieffen Plan” German advance through Belgium into France came very close indeed to destroying the French army in a matter of weeks. The main reason that France survived that immediate onslaught was the surprisingly swift advance of its distant Russian allies into East Prussia, which scared the Germans into switching troops from the Western Front to the Eastern Front at a critical juncture. The resistance of the Belgian army at Antwerp, and support from the small but elite British Expeditionary Force, also greatly assisted France in riding out Germany’s 1914 offensive in the West.

From then on, Germany was never free to concentrate its full strength on defeating the French armies. Instead, Germany had to keep an increasing proportion of its strength to face France’s allies: particularly against Russia in 1915; and from 1916 onwards, against ever-expanding British armies. Even so, Germany once again came close to destroying the best of France’s fighting strength in terrible battles of attrition at Verdun in 1916. Germany failed at Verdun, thanks not only to the courageous defense by the French, but also to the distraction provided by the British Somme offensive.

Perhaps the closest that Germany came to defeating France was in 1917, when large numbers of French army units mutinied – or perhaps more correctly went on strike – against mounting more and more futile and costly attacks on the German trench lines. But the Germans never learned of the collapse in French morale. The British offensive in Flanders (3rd Ypres / Passchendaele) gave France a breathing space to restore order and morale in its armies.

In 1918, following the failure of Germany’s “last gasp” spring offensives, there was no longer much doubt that France and its allies would eventually win. By that time, the British army on the Western Front had become a large and very competent force, regarded by most German generals as their most dangerous adversary. And American troops were arriving in France in enormous numbers; they were, of course, ‘green’ and dependent on the French armaments industry for almost all equipment beyond uniforms and rifles; but they were fit, healthy and full of enthusiasm for the fight.

So France beat Germany. But France could not have beaten Germany without the sacrifices of its allies: Russia, Belgium, Britain and the US.

Answer 5

NOT exactly. The Allied forces were victorious against the Ottoman empire, with whom the Germans were allied because of their strong Ottoman Turk interests. Read Barbara Tuchman's 'Guns of August".

Answer 6

Yeah, and their reward was the province of Alcase-Lorraine..... at Campiegne, the Armistice was signed aboard a train... Of course, you know it was a joint effort of the allies, not solely a french victory.

Answer 7

Yes.