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Vichy - vĭshˈē, Fr. vēshēˈ, city (1990 pop. 28,048), Allier dept., central France, on the Allier River. Vichy's hot mineral springs have made it one of the foremost spas in Europe. In addition to bottled Vichy water, pharmaceuticals, clothing, and cosmetics are manufactured. The Vichy government was the regime set up there by Marshal Henri Pétain in


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    The Vichy Regime, 1940-44 (1958) » Read Now

    by Robert Aron, Georgette Elgey, Humphrey Hare. 538 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...first published in France 1955 The Vichy Regime 1940-44...2. France in the Time of the...Divorce between Vichy and Public Opinion...392 VICHY, THE FOURTH PERIOD...1944 1...
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    Two Years of French Foreign Policy: Vichy, 1940-1942 (1958) » Read Now

    by Adrienne Doris Hytier. 400 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...the allusive name of Vichy, the foreign policy of France has necessarily been...countries, but in France by the French of Vichy and by the Gaullists...sufficient to justify...
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    Vichy: Two Years of Deception (1943) » Read Now

    by Leon Marchal. 256 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...XIV FIGHTING FRANCE 214...INDEX 245 VICHY Two Years of Deception...detained in occupied France, the enemy having...from setting out for Vichy. Others--nearly all...appears...
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    Politics, Society and Christianity in Vichy France » Read Now

    by W. D. Halls. 420 pgs.

    This is the first work in English or French to deal comprehensively with the attitudes and activities of Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, in France during the Vichy regime and under the German yoke. The author shows how Christians reacted to Marshal Pétain and the Laval government, as well...
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    Vichy France and the Jews » Read Now

    by Michael R. Marrus, Robert O. Paxton. 432 pgs.

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    France at War: Vichy and the Historians » Read Now

    by Laura Lee Downs, Sarah Fishman, David Lake, Ioannis Sinanoglou, Leonard V. Smith, Robert Zaretsky. 326 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This volume about the Vichy years and the German Occupation of 1940-1944 uses as a starting point Robert Paxton's Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, which provided a meticulously documented portrait of a nation consumed by indecision and self-doubt. The essays by the foremost scholars in the...
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    Petain: Verdun to Vichy » Read Now

    by Francis Martel. 226 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    The Resistance versus Vichy: The Purge of Collaborators in Liberated France » Read Now

    by Peter Novick. 250 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...father and the saviour of France. But at Vichy these widely held views were...most chose repatriation to Vichy France. A few men from French colonies...La Soi-Disant...
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    Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942 (Chap. Fourteen "The Path to Vichy: Continuities and Discontinuities in Jewish Refugee Policy") » Read Now

    by Vicki Caron. 606 pgs.

    By drawing on an array of primary sources and archive material, this text offers the first major appraisal of French responses to the Jewish refugee crisis after 1933. It explores French policies and attitudes from three interrelated vantage points.
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    The Authorized Press in Vichy and German-Occupied France, 1940-1944: A Bibliography » Read Now

    by Donna Evleth. 234 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Despite heavy censorship and sometimes outright control by either Vichy or the Germans, the authorized press is a useful and necessary source for anyone studying the period of German occupation and the Vichy government in France. The daily and weekly political press, the press created by Vichy for...
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    Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France » Read Now

    by Richard J. Golsan. 234 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    One of the distinctive features of the "Vichy Syndrome" -- the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life -- is that it has been extremely difficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails...
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    America and the French Nation, 1939-1945 (Includes discussion of Vichy France in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by Julian G. Hurstfield. 310 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...in defense of Petain and Vichy France. "I dont know if it is right...closing stages of the Battle of France, American representatives in Vichy and Africa were...

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