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General Gallieni, dining in civilian clothes at a small café in Paris on August 9, overheard an editor of Le Temps at the next table say to a companion, I can tell you that General Gallieni has just entered Colmar with 30,000 men. Leaning over to his friend, Gallieni said quietly, That is how history is written.

Barbara W. Tuchman

General Gallieni, dining in civilian clothes at a small café in Paris on August 9, overheard an editor of Le Temps at the next table say to a companion, I can tell you that General Gallieni has just entered Colmar with 30,000 men. Leaning over to his friend, Gallieni said quietly, That is how history is written.

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About Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.Tuchman focused on writing popular history.