Collaborationist government in Nazi-occupied France
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"Maréchal, nous voilà !" (unofficial)[2] ("Marshal, here we are!")
The French State in 1942:
Unoccupied zone
German military occupation zone
French protectorates
The gradual loss of all Vichy territory to Free France and the Allied powers
Status
Independent state under partial occupation (1940–1942)
Fully occupied by Germany (1942–1944)
Government-in-exile (1944–1945)
Capital
Vichy (de facto administrative)
Paris (constitutional)
Capital-in-exile
Sigmaringen
Common languages
French
Government
Provisional republic under a collaborationist authoritarian dictatorship
Chief of State
• 1940–1944
Philippe Pétain
Prime Minister
• 1940–1942
Philippe Pétain
• 1940 (acting)
Pierre Laval
• 1940–1941 (acting)
P.É. Flandin
• 1941–1942 (acting)
François Darlan
• 1942–1944
Pierre Laval
Legislature
National Assembly
Historical era
World War II
• Second Compiègne
22 June 1940
• Pétain given full powers
10 July 1940
• Operation Torch
8 November 1942
• Case Anton
11 November 1942
• German retreat
Summer 1944
• Vichy laws repealed
9 August 1944[1]
• Capture of the Sigmaringen enclave
22 April 1945
Currency
French franc
Preceded by
Succeeded by
French Third Republic
[[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|1940: German military administration]]
1942: German military administration
Italian military administration
1944: French Government Commission for the Defense of National Interests
Provisional Government of the French Republic
Paris remained the de jure capital of the French State, although the Vichy government never operated from there.
Although the French Republic's institutions were officially maintained, the word "Republic" never occurred in any official document of the Vichy government.
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The Government of Vichy France was the collaborationist ruling regime or government in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War. Of contested legitimacy, it was headquartered in the town of Vichy in occupied France, but it initially took shape in Paris under Marshal Philippe Pétain as the successor to the French Third Republic in June 1940. The government remained in Vichy for four years, but fled to Germany in September 1944 after the Allied invasion of France. It operated as a government-in-exile until April 1945, when the Sigmaringen enclave was taken by Free French forces. Pétain was brought back to France, by then under control of the Provisional French Republic, and put on trial for treason.
^"Ordonnance du 9 août 1944 relative au rétablissement de la légalité républicaine sur le territoire continental – Version consolidée au 10 août 1944" [Law of 9 August 1944 Concerning the reestablishment of the legally constituted Republic on the mainland – consolidated version of 10 August 1944]. gouv.fr. Legifrance. 9 August 1944. Archived from the original on 16 July 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2015. Article 1: The form of the government of France is and remains the Republic. By law, it has not ceased to exist. Article 2: The following are therefore null and void: all legislative or regulatory acts as well as all actions of any description whatsoever taken to execute them, promulgated in Metropolitan France after 16 June 1940 and until the restoration of the Provisional Government of the French Republic. This nullification is hereby expressly declared and must be noted. Article 3. The following acts are hereby expressly nullified and held invalid: The so-called "Constitutional Law of 10 July 1940; as well as any laws called 'Constitutional Law';...
^Dompnier, Nathalie (2001). "Entre La Marseillaise et Maréchal, nous voilà! quel hymne pour le régime de Vichy ?". In Chimènes, Myriam (ed.). La vie musicale sous Vichy. Histoire du temps présent (in French). Bruxelles: Éditions Complexe – IRPMF-CNRS, coll. p. 71. ISBN 978-2-87027-864-2.
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