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The Fall of France and the Rise of the Vichy Regime

The Fall of France and the Rise of the Vichy Regime

Campbell, Gabriel W.

Paperback

French HistoryGeneral World HistoryWorld War II

ISBN13: 9798235146648
Publisher: Colloquium Verlag
Published: Aug 12 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In the early summer of 1940, the French Third Republic vanished not merely through the sheer momentum of an invading army, but through a profound, self-inflicted institutional collapse. Within six weeks, the nation possessing what was widely regarded as the most formidable land army in Western Europe suffered a military, political, and psychological catastrophe without precedent in modern history. As millions of terrified civilians choked the country's roadways in a desperate flight southward, the parliamentary republic, which had endured for seven decades and survived the grueling trial of the First World War, folded upon itself. In its place emerged the French State (L'État Français), anchored in the quiet spa town of Vichy and headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain, the venerated hero of Verdun. This transition was not an inescapable outcome dictated solely by foreign occupation, but an intentional, internal counter-revolution. The fall of France exposed deep structural fractures within the nation's social and political fabric, enabling an authoritarian right-wing elite to dismantle democratic institutions and institute a radical ideological project under the shadow of German hegemony.

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