• 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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    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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    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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    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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    "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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    November 2021. Aron 1964, p. 199 Aron 1964, p. 203 Aron, Robert (1964). Grands dossiers de l'histoire contemporaine. Paris: CAL (Club des amis du livre)....
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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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    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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    (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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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    ultimately led to Hitler's invasion. "Histoire des Chefs de Gouvernement". République Française – Portail du Gouvernement. 2009. Archived from the original on...
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    Republic (GPRF) was installed as the new national government, led by Charles de Gaulle. The last of the Vichy exiles were captured in the Sigmaringen...
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    Vichy Armée de l'Air française), usually referred to as the Air Force of Vichy (Armée de l'air de Vichy) or Armistice Air Force (Armée de l'Air de l'armistice)...
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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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    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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    résistible ascension du FN". raslfront.org. Archived from the original on 19 November 2003. Winock, Michel (1994). Histoire de l'extrême droite en France...
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