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    The canton of Vichy-1 is an administrative division of the Allier department, in central France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which...
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    the capital of Vichy France. As of 2021, Vichy has a population of 25,789. Known for its mineral springs since the Roman times, Vichy had become a major...
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    Vichy France. Due to war-time conditions and to the fact that the colonial authorities in Kouang Tchéou did not recognize the Vichy government, Vichy-issued...
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    Vichy, in the village of Magny-Cours, that Louis-Guy de Guérapin, Baron de Vauréal et Comte de Belleval, suddenly died. According to Jaime Masones de...
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    Liberation of France (category Vichy France)
    (link) "Le Bilan de la Shoah en France [Le régime de Vichy]" [The Toll of the Holocaust in France [Vichy Regime]]. bseditions.fr. Yad Vashem [1] Archived 11...
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    Switzerland (redirect from ISO 3166-1:CH)
    militaires, Grisons-Liechtenstein) et l'enclave allemande du Verenahof dans le canton de Schaffhouse en 1967.") in German, French and Italian in the online Historical...
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    and September 1940, authorities in West Africa declared allegiance to the Vichy regime, as did the colony of French Gabon in AEF. Gabon fell to Free France...
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    Maurice Papon (category People of Vichy France)
    commissaire de la République, a high civil servant that replaced Vichy's prefects. He effectively retained the same functions as during the war. Charles de Gaulle...
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  • period of Vichy rule, of which forty-nine were in the military and twenty-seven were in the foreign legion. In 1940 the antisemitic Vichy-France Law...
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    arrondissement of Vichy since 1942. It was member of the canton of Escurolles from 1801 to 2015. The commune is the centralizer office of the canton of Bellerive-sur-Allier...
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    gypsies, and other "undesirable" populations under Vichy's conceptions. The first digit of the NIR was 1 for a male European, 2 for a female European, 3...
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    arrondissement of Vichy, for many years it was the capital of a unique canton until 1985, at which point a decree separated this canton into two parts :...
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  • François Tanguy-Prigent (category The Vichy 80)
    de Gaulle, holding office from September 1944 to October 1947. He was Minister of Supplies from November 1945 to January 1946. He dissolved the Vichy...
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    distinctive colonial flags. These most commonly had a French Tricolour in the canton. As well as the flags of individual colonies, the governors-general of French...
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    population of 334,872 in 2021. Moulins is the prefecture; Montluçon and Vichy are the subprefectures. Its INSEE and post code is 03. Before 2018, the...
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  • by 40%. On 23 April 1941, the French police was nationalized under the Vichy regime, and each branch was placed under the prefect. The term Police nationale...
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    Bohuslän former Norwegian province. Black madonna with beheaded child [1] Einsiedeln (Canton of Schwyz): Our Lady of the Hermits In the United States, a reproduction...
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    Île d'Yeu (redirect from He de Yeu)
    War I who later became the leader of France's wartime collaborationist Vichy régime, was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason on Île d'Yeu. He...
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    consider to be Brittany's capital, Nantes. However, during World War II, the Vichy Government set up a system of regional prefectures whereby on 19 April 1941...
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    Demographics of France (category Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques)
    the code de la famille, provided enough financial incentives for large families to double the income of a family with six children. The Vichy government...
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    2014-210/Décret 2014-210 du 21 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département du Puy-de-Dôme". Légifrance (in French). 21 February 2014. "Répertoire...
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    Banque de l'Indochine was chaired by Paul Baudoin, who in the summer of 1940 was the first Foreign Minister of Vichy France. In 1941, the Banque de l'Indochine...
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    Italy in the lead up to, and during, World War II, also collaborating with Vichy France. Eugène Macchini, who was serving as the party's president in the...
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    History of Switzerland (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Swiss Confederation has been a federal republic of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of federation that goes back more than 700...
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    Rhône (category Rivers of the canton of Vaud)
    The river's source is the Rhône Glacier, at the east edge of the Swiss canton of Valais. The glacier is part of the Saint-Gotthard Massif, which gives...
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    (Green Mountain), north of the two main cities of the agglomeration that are Vichy and Cusset. The city is accessible through several departmental roads: D...
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    France has remained a republic, with the tricolour flag, ever since. The Vichy régime, which dropped the word "republic" in favour of "the French state"...
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    department in central France. Creuzier-le-Neuf is located 9 kilometers north of Vichy which it is a part of the agglomeration and about 20 km from Varennes-sur-Allier...
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    the canton of Vichy 1801–1892: member of the canton of Cusset 1892–1973: member of the canton of Vichy 1973–1985: member of the canton of Vichy-Sud 1985–2015:...
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    economic life. Some of the most important are the Col de la Forclaz (which connects Chamonix to the canton of Valais) and the Mont Blanc Tunnel, linking Chamonix...
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