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Vichy Franceofficially French State French État Français(July 1940–September 1944) French regime in World War II after the German defeat of France. The Franco-German armistice (June 1940) divided France into two zones: one under German military occupation and one under nominal French control (the southeastern two-fifths of the country). The National Assembly, summoned at Vichy to ratify the armistice, was persuaded by Pierre Laval to grant Philippe Pétain authority to assume full powers in the French State. The antirepublican Vichy government collaborated with the Germans and became increasingly a tool of German policy, especially after the Germans occupied the whole of France in 1942. By early 1944 the Resistance movement against the Gestapo and Vichy militias created a period of civil war in France, and after the liberation of Paris the Vichy regime was abolished. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In another instance, the French Embassy in New York canceled a party to honor Australian author Carmen Callil after complaints that she equated Jewish suffering under the Vichy government in France with Israel's treatment of Palestinians. She agrees that the Vichy Government sought to transform the perceived threat of "voluntarily sterile bachelors" (vieux garcons) who pursued selfish interests into reassuring "proper family men" (pere de famille) who partook in "uplifting" pastimes (such as reading and gardening) and sacrificed themselves to husband families and, by extension, the Nation (57). What if Bush does not know that these politicians are to Lebanon what the Vichy government was to France under the German occupation and that the Lebanese resistance is so underground, literarily, that its voice is barely audible except maybe for someone like me who is a housewife and a mother living in a U. |
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