• Charles Mercier du Paty de Clam (16 February 1895 – 8 April 1948), was a French soldier and civil servant who served as Commissioner-General for Jewish...
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    Charles Armand Auguste Ferdinand Mercier du Paty de Clam (21 February 1853 – 3 September 1916) was a French army officer, an amateur graphologist, and...
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    Nazi racial policies. After Darquier de Pellepoix was expelled from office on 26 February 1944, Charles du Paty de Clam was appointed Commissioner-General...
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    incompetence could no longer be countenanced." His successor was Charles du Paty de Clam. ON 10 December 1947 He was sentenced to death in absentia national...
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    ISBN 0415290198 Michel Germain (1997). La Fontaine de Siloé (ed.). Histoire de la milice et des forces du maintien de l'ordre en Haute-Savoie 1940-1945 – Guerre...
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    Roundup ( [vel ˈdiv] vell-DEEV; from French: la rafle du Vel' d'Hiv', an abbreviation of la rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver) was a mass arrest of Jewish families...
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    "Les évadés de Drancy". IMDb. 6 March 2017. "Ensemble de logements HBM, Cité de la Muette – Patrimoine – Atlas de l'architecture et du patrimoine". 15...
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    The Battle of Gabon (French: Bataille du Gabon), also called the Gabon Campaign (Campagne du Gabon), occurred in November 1940 during World War II. The...
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  • colony, and be replaced by a pro-Allied Free French one under General Charles de Gaulle. At the beginning of World War II, the French fleet in the Mediterranean...
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  • The Army of the Levant (French: Armée du Levant) identifies the armed forces of France and then Vichy France which occupied, and were in part recruited...
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  • Milice Franc-Garde Groupe mobile de réserve Guard (Vichy France) Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon. Service du travail obligatoire - the provision...
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  • La France de Bordeaux et du Sud-Ouest Le Petit Parisien, now Le Parisien Le Nouvelliste de Lyon Le Phare de la Loire, later La Résistance de l'Ouest and...
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    Philippe Pétain (category Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint-Charles)
    War I, to collaborationist ruler during World War II, led his successor Charles de Gaulle to declare that Pétain's life was "successively banal, then glorious...
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    Jacques Delperrié de Bayac, Le royaume du maréchal : histoire de la zone libre, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1975, p. 14. « Invasion de la zone libre »,...
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    armistice began even before it was signed, with Charles de Gaulle's appeal of 18 June. As a result, a de facto government-in-exile in opposition to Pétain...
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    Papon was personally awarded the Legion of Honour by French President Charles de Gaulle, whose government had been struggling with the FLN insurgency....
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    p. 203 Aron, Robert (1964). Grands dossiers de l'histoire contemporaine. Paris: CAL (Club des amis du livre). Thomas, Martin (1997). "Deferring to Vichy...
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    les débarquements alliés en Afrique du Nord" [Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa]. Chemins de mémoire (French Government website)....
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    to a quote by Pétain himself, brought by his civil head of staff, H. Du Moulin de Labarthète), including that of drafting a new Constitution. Anti-parliamentarism...
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    recognisable on the terrace of the Pam Pam and took afternoon bike rides in the Bois de Boulogne. In the Latin Quarter, the Zazous met in the cellar clubs of Dupont-Latin...
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  • foreign country". Charles Maurras denounced him as a traitor who had sold out to the British, whom he regarded as "enemy number one". Charles de Gaulle's eventual...
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    the island as a precautionary measure.: 131  On 16 December, General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French in London, sent a letter to the British...
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    et bien qu'il fût le principal responsable du maquis, il abandonna ses fonctions avec des félicitations de la plus parfaite indécence. », Je suis partout...
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    (978-0394-47360-4)], La France de Vichy – 1940-1944, Points-Histoire (in French), translated by Bertrand, Claude, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, ISBN 978-2-02-039210-5...
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    The Service du travail obligatoire (STO; lit. 'compulsory work service') was the forced enlistment and deportation of hundreds of thousands of French workers...
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  • period aimed at national reconciliation and unity under the figure of Charles de Gaulle, who conceived himself above political parties and divisions. Then...
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    ISBN 978-2-262-03561-7. Bougeard, Christian (May 1996). "Les Côtes-du-Nord". Les Cahiers de l'Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent. 32 (32–33): 343–363. doi:10.3406/ihtp...
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    militaire française en Indochine. Vincennes: Publications du service historique de l'Armée de Terre. Young, Edward M. (1995) Aerial Nationalism: A History...
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    (1967). Une histoire politique de l'armée: Volume 2: 1940-1967 - de De Gaulle à de Gaulle (in French). Vol. 2. Éditions du Seuil. Delpla, François (1996)...
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  • trial. Blum was defended by Samuel Spanien who was Secrétaire de la Conférence du barreau de Paris. Édouard Daladier (born 1884), Prime Minister of France...
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