vichy in English

noun
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a town in south central France; population 26,555 (2006). A noted spa town, it is the source of an effervescent mineral water. During World War II, it was the headquarters of the regime set up after the German occupation of northern France to administer unoccupied France and the colonies. Never recognized by the Allies, the regime functioned as a puppet government for the Nazis.

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3. 54 Vichy French bombers raided Gibraltar.

4. Vichy apologized to the blog community.

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6. Vietnamese Collaborationism in Vichy France - Volume 76 Issue 4 - Charles Keith

7. In the face of it, Vichy France was folding up.

8. Rains had had a bottle of vichy water in his inside pocket.

9. This fact has been used as arguments by supporters of Vichy.

10. Vichy shower: Characteristics and functions: Microcomputer digital automatic control system

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12. The Vichy in France during the Second World War were German Stooges.

13. We have a possible new asset in the Vichy Administration zone.

14. The Monnet Plan of 1946 was closely based on Vichy plans.

15. Franklin Roosevelt had maintained a diplomatic representative in Vichy from the outset.

16. 8 Franklin Roosevelt had maintained a diplomatic representative in Vichy from the outset.

17. 18: In response to Mers-el-Kébir, the Vichy French Air Force bombs British-held Gibraltar.

18. He, for his part , naturally resented any kind of truck on our part with Vichy.

19. By the 19th century Vichy was a station à la mode, attended by many celebrities.

20. At 8∶30 a.m. on July Vichy envoys arrived to sue for an armistice.

21. 31 July - Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.

22. June 8-July 8 – The British invade Syria, and aerial combat between British and Vichy French aircraft ensues.

23. One of Philadelphia's aircraft discovered and bombed a Vichy French submarine on 9 November in the vicinity of Cape Kantin.

24. These were broken after Vichy expressed support for Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

25. Sounds a lot like the National Revolution of Vichy France – the last major state to believe that prosperity lay in Agrarianism.

26. Following the defeat of the Vichy French forces in Operation Torch, he joined the French Expeditionary Corps and saw action in Italy.

27. The provisional government considered the Vichy government to have been unconstitutional and all its actions therefore without legitimate authority.

28. The following month Roosevelt and Churchill tried to prevent de Gaulle from conducting legal proceedings against former Vichy officials.

29. He was able to play down his Vichy activities, and his questionable wartime record never proved a serious handicap in politics.

30. General Henri Dentz, the Vichy High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon, played a major role in the independence of the nation.

31. There's a famous historian of Vichy, who once wrote that he could never write a book about collaboration, he would write about Collaborationisms

32. In July 1940, Vichy set up a special commission charged with reviewing naturalisations granted since the 1927 reform of the nationality law.

33. She was assigned to the Centre Task Force of Operation Torch in early November and was unsuccessfully attacked by the Vichy French submarine Fresnel.

34. The Germans had other nuisance value to thank, as well: the Vichy Fleet in the Mediterranean and the French African ports. Sentencedict.com

35. Initially, Winston Churchill was ambivalent about de Gaulle and he dropped ties with Vichy only when it became clear they would not fight the Germans.

36. Following change in time zone of Vichy authorities, French Indochina was integrated to UTC+08:00 skipping 60 minutes at 23:00 31 December 1942.

37. The shortage of volunteers led the Vichy government of France to deport workers to Germany, where they constituted 15% of the labor force by August 1944.

38. In November 1942 the Axis lost the Second Battle of El Alamein, and the Allies landed forces in Vichy French Morocco and Algeria under Operation Torch.

39. While the Vichy government was nominally in charge of all of France, the military administration in the occupied zone was a de facto Nazi dictatorship.

40. Collaborationism was not only an accumulation of individual stories. It was also a political world setting itself up against Vichy, and offering a more radical vision of France’s future.

41. Aerospace firms combine The Jewish commandos were the first in Bardia and Tobruk and they destroyed the Vichy government's harbor installations in Beirut and the Airdrome near Baghdad where Nazi troop[s]

42. 23: Free French and British forces attempt a landing at Dakar, French West Africa; Vichy French naval forces open fire sporadically for two days, and the expedition is called back.

43. On 7 September 1944, following the Allied invasion of France, the remainders of the Vichy government cabinet fled to Germany and established a puppet government in exile in the so-called Sigmaringen enclave.

44. Following a hurried shakedown cruise along the Atlantic Coast in the spring of 1942, Juneau assumed blockade patrol in early May off Martinique and Guadeloupe Islands to prevent the escape of Vichy French naval units.

45. Rendezvousing with Moffett and Sims off Fort-de-France, Martinique, Walke and O’Brien patrolled the approaches to that port, keeping an eye on the movements of Vichy French warships Barfleur, Quercy, and Béarn, through 14 December.

46. After escort and patrol duties, on 8 October she participated in the assault and capture of the island of Nosy Be on the north west coast of Madagascar, which was occupied by Vichy French forces.

47. Le Mazet vein, Échassières, Vichy, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France : On the right of the road, just 50 m before the first building of Le Mazet ore dressing, coming from Echassières

48. Agency 'sorry' for E.Coli failings; HEALTH The French Government may have fallen into the same trap when Jacques Chirac, as president, Apologised for the Vichy regime, for which he was not in any way personally responsible.

49. The head of the Collaborationist Vichy government, Marshal Philippe Pétain, would be tried and sentenced to death in the summer of 1945 while the trial of his second in command, Pierre Laval, took place in October 1945

50. Many Vichy officials, such as Pétain, were reactionaries who felt that France's unfortunate fate was a result of its republican character and the actions of its left-wing governments of the 1930s, in particular of the Popular Front (1936–1938) led by Léon Blum.