German officers appeared in Vichy one day last week and fear swept through the town. But the people of Vichy soon learned that the officers were not part of an occupying army. They were members of ...

FRANCE'S LAST MARSHAL BURIED; Funeral Services over the Remains of Francois Certain Canrobert. Share full article. Feb. 4, 1895. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain. By Julian Jackson. Belknap Press. 480 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book.

I n 1916, Marshal Philippe Pétain, the hero of Verdun, had become the personification of a France that would never submit to German aggression. In 1940, he symbolized the France that did.

Among the most important "programmatic" statements by Marshal Pétain is one given by him to the Revue des Deux Mondes, and printed by that periodical in its issue of September 15, 1940, under the ...

In the cold, cheerless onetime health resort which is now the capital of unoccupied France, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain last week proceeded with the construction of a state designed to suit both ...