Unless the whole world was deceived, the Vichy Government last week squarely and publicly placed its bet on Germany to win World War II. Not only did it yield to Germany, which men in France today ...

The official Vichy radio today indicated that Archbishop Saliege of Toulouse was no longer considered “persona grata” in unoccupied France because of his denunciation of the deportation of Jews. Mgr.

Almost 50 years ago, Robert Paxton published his influential “Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944.” The book awakened readers to the shock of how close France came to becoming an ...

A glance at the current best-seller list in France reminds us that not only will we always have Paris, we will also always have Vichy. Eric Zemmour’s “Le France Suicide” has just elbowed aside Valérie ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Last Friday, I ...

The leafless little parks of Vichy seemed even more forlorn than before. The name Pétain might keep for many a touch of magic—a legendary gleam that shone out of the mud of Verdun. But the man Pétain, ...

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