Vichy in a sentence

The Maquis’s goal was to destabilize Vichy authority, and they did this by simultaneously making themselves, as well as Vichy authorities, the ‘hunters’ and the ‘hunted’.

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Vichy's thermal baths Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné was a patient in 1676 and 1677 and would popularize Vichy's Thermal Baths through the written descriptions in her letters.

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Another 16% are from Morocco and 2% from Algeria, both of which placed restrictions on Jews as colonies of France’s Vichy regime.

He explained how the targeting of Jews came “from the Nazis to the Vichy regime and down to the police”.

In July 1940, Vichy French vessels and sailors at Mers-el-Kebir off Algeria suffered heavy losses from British air and naval attack.

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The operation planners believed that Vichy forces would be less hostile to American invaders than to the British.

The measure was significant, sinking, at least in some way, the notion that the French republic somehow retained its purity in abolition during German occupation and Vichy rule.

After their defeat in the war, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) gave weapons to the Vietnamese, and kept Vichy French officials and military officers imprisoned for a month after the surrender.

After the proclamation by Marshal Philippe Pétain of the Vichy France regime, the refugees became political prisoners, and the French police attempted to round up those who had been liberated from the camp.

Although he received a largely positive reception from the crowds who came out to see him, he reflected that only a few months previously the very same people had come out to cheer Marshal Pétain when he was serving the Vichy regime.

Although officially neutral, Marshal Philippe Pétain 's "Vichy regime" collaborated with the Axis from June 1940.

At a court-martial by Vichy, on 2 August 1940, de Gaulle was condemned to death for treason.

At the time Hitler did not want to risk damaging his relations with the new Vichy French government.

Before he can meet his contact, he is arrested by the local police under the command of Captain Louis Renault, an unabashedly corrupt Vichy official.

Britain, fearing that Nazi Germany would gain full control of Lebanon and Syria by pressure on the weak Vichy government, sent its army into Syria and Lebanon.

British Empire All British Army cavalry regiments had been mechanised since 1 March 1942 when the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons ( Yeomanry ) was converted to a motorised role, following mounted service against the Vichy French in Syria the previous year.