sentences:  His great-uncle, a Catholic priest, Father Abbe Lefebvre (1771-1866), had served in Napoleon's "Grande Armée" and told the young Philippe tales of war and adventure of his campaigns from the peninsulas of Italy to the Alps in Switzerland.Highly impressed by the tales told by his uncle, his destiny was from then on determined by the army.Pétain was a bachelor until his sixties, and known for his womanising.