Vichy
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Vichy is a city in the central French department of Allier. Located on the Allier river, it is a major spa and resort town and during World War II was the de facto administrative capital of Vichy Fran
Aerial view of Vichy in 2023.
The Opera in Vichy. In this building, parliamentarians of the French Third Republic granted full powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain on 10 July 1940.
The Hôtel de Ville
Share of the New Society of Natural Mineral Waters of Vichy, issued 19 February 1900
Philippe Pétain
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Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain, better known as Marshal Pétain, was a French military officer who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the Axis-collaboration
Vichy
…The town developed further under the patronage of Napoleon III. Following the 1940 armistice, the pro-German collaborationist government headed by Philippe Pétain was set up at Vichy, which remained the de facto capital of the French rump state for the next four years. After the war, the city experienced a period…
Pétain in 1941
Pétain in the 1880s
Pétain in 1915. Autochrome portrait by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
Pétain, Haig, Foch and Pershing in 1918