Vichy
by Hugh Smith
Title
Vichy
Artist
Hugh Smith
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
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Center city in Vichy, France. Vichy France (French: R�gime de Vichy) is the common name of the French State (�tat fran�ais) headed by Marshal Philippe P�tain during World War II. In particular, it represents the southern, unoccupied "Free Zone" (zone libre) that governed the southern part of the country.
From 1940 to 1942, while the Vichy regime was the nominal government of France as a whole, Germany militarily occupied northern France. Thus, while Paris remained the de jure capital of France, the de facto capital of southern, "unoccupied" France was the town of Vichy, 360 km (220 mi) to the south. Following the Allied landings in French North Africa in November 1942, southern France was also militarily occupied by Germany and Italy. remained in existence, but as a de facto client state of Nazi Germany. It vanished in late 1944 when the Allies occupied all of France.
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