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Henri Philippe Petain
Henri Philippe Pétain , 1856-1951, French army officer, head of state of the Vichy government (see under Vichy ). In World War I he halted the Germans at Verdun (1916), thus becoming the most beloved French military hero of that conflict. In 1917 he was appointed French commander in chief... Read more |
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Paul Reynaud
Paul Reynaud , 1878-1966, French statesman and lawyer. He held several cabinet posts, and after Nov., 1938, as minister of finance in the cabinet of Édouard Daladier , he pursued an extremely deflationary policy. During World War II he succeeded Daladier as premier in Mar., 1940. On May 18,... Read more |
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Milice
Milice, or more properly Milice Française, was a 30,000-strong Vichy French paramilitary police force. It collaborated with the Germans in rooting out Jews for deportation and hunting down the maquis and other French resistance groups, and became notorious for its brutality. It was founded in ... Read more |
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Albert Lebrun
Albert Lebrun , 1871-1950, French statesman, last president of the Third Republic. Elected to the chamber of deputies in 1900, he later became a senator and held various cabinet posts. A moderate, he succeeded Paul Doumer as president in 1932 and was reelected in 1939. In July, 1940, the... Read more |
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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine , 1828-93, French critic and historian. A brilliant student, he gained recognition with the publication of his doctoral thesis, Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine (1853). His deterministic theories, which held that man was the product of heredity, historical conditioning,... Read more |
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Jean Francois Darlan
Jean François Darlan , 1881-1942, French admiral. A career naval officer, he became commander of the French navy in 1939 and joined the Vichy government (see under Vichy ) in 1940 as minister of the navy. After the fall of Pierre Laval , Darlan was made (Feb., 1941) vice premier, foreign... Read more |
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armistice
armistice, mutual agreement whereby the fighting stops so that permanent peace terms can be agreed upon later. Several were agreed during the course of the War, some of them on more lenient terms than the unconditional surrender mostly demanded by the Allies. Those dictated by the Allies were... Read more |
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Bealtaine
Bealtaine (1 May), the first day of summer and one of the four traditional ‘quarter days’, important in the calendar customs of Goidelic‐speaking areas up to the twentieth century. The name's derivation is uncertain: ‐taine has been taken to mean ‘fire’,... Read more |
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Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval , 1883-1945, French politician. Elected (1914) to the chamber of deputies as a Socialist, he held various cabinet posts and in 1926 became a senator as an Independent, moving away from his leftist affiliations. In 1931-32 and 1935-36 he was premier and foreign minister. With Sir Samuel... Read more |
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