Read complete books and articles on: Vichy France

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

14 of the Best Books and Articles on: Vichy France

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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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Vichy: Political Dilemma (1955) » Read Now
by Paul Farmer. 378 pgs.

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Two Years of French Foreign Policy: Vichy, 1940-1942 (1958) » Read Now
by Adrienne Doris Hytier. 400 pgs.

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...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.

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...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.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

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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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 as to the Allies, the Germans, the Resistance and the Vatican. The trauma of the treatment of the Jews, which eventually acted upon the Church as a catalyst, is assessed in detail since it represented a turning-point in Christian attitudes. This rigorous examination of one of history's darkest periods provides a wealth of new material on matters hotly debated at the Liberation including:- the Vichy regime's slide into near-fascism;- the persecution of the Jews;- the attempted regimentation of youth and trade unions;- resistance to, or collaboration with, the enemy; and- the paramountcy of conscience for Christians.
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Vichy France and the Jews » Read Now
by Michael R. Marrus, Robert O. Paxton. 432 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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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.

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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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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 field place the Occupation of France in the context of other episodes in French history, and in the context of other occupied countries during World War II. They consider communities of belief during the Vichy years, examine how the experience of war and occupation shaped the everyday lives of people, and look at the ongoing reconstruction of the memory of the Vichy years.This collection of essays takes up where Paxton left off and shows how the last twenty-five years of scholarship have made problematic the tidy categories used to describe behaviour during the Vichy years. The authors point to new directions in the field and address both the myth of the 'nation of forty million resisters' that Paxton demolished and the creation of a new myth -- that the French have failed or refused to confront their past.
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Petain: Verdun to Vichy » Read Now
by Francis Martel. 226 pgs.

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Triumph of Treason (1944) (Chap. 4 "The Vichy Government against Justice") » Read Now
by Pierre Cot. 432 pgs.

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The Resistance versus Vichy: The Purge of Collaborators in Liberated France » Read Now
by Peter Novick. 250 pgs.

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...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.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

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.

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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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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 its Chantiers de la Jeunesse youth movement, its Legion of War veterans and its Peasant Corporation for agriculture show the regime's ideology and priorities. A wide variety of other periodicals, including religious publications, advertising papers, trade papers, and sports papers, provides insights into the professional and local life of the period. This book provides a guide to the authorized press of the occupation period.
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Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France » Read Now
by Richard J. Golsan. 234 pgs.

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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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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, fascinate and even obsess the French, inflecting not only discussions of the past but of the present as well?
In Vichy's Afterlife, Richard J. Golsan explores the complexities of some of the most provocative episodes of Vichy's curious persistence in France's national consciousness. He argues that each of these episodes, events, and scandals, constitutes a crossroads where history and "counterhistory" -- different or competing versions of the past -- encounter one another, often with explosive and even destructive consequences.
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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.

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...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...