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When considering the French reaction to the German bridge heads over the muse, it's important

to make a distinction between what they were trying to do and what they actually did.

This is because the basic theory behind their reactions, which they called colmitage,

which translates into English as plugging or sealing or clogging,

it was essentially a method of sending units forward to seal off any German penetrations, to halt

their advance, and then maybe even to roll back some of their gains through counterattacks.

And while there's always some amount of variance, this is exactly or almost exactly how every other army at this point in time

would have reacted to what was happening.

They even had, the French that is, the reserves positioned at They even had, the French, that is, the reserves

positioned at the divisional, the core, the army, and the army group levels to make this happen,

as we've discussed on two different occasions over the past two episodes. So if the theory was

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