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    The canton of Vichy-1 is an administrative division of the Allier department, in central France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which...
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    Vichy (/ˈvɪʃi, ˈviːʃi/, French: [viʃi] ; Occitan: Vichèi [viˈtʃɛj]) is a city in the Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, central France, in the historic...
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    Vichy France. Due to war-time conditions and to the fact that the colonial authorities in Kouang Tchéou did not recognize the Vichy government, Vichy-issued...
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    Switzerland (redirect from ISO 3166-1:CH)
    and the popular cantonal votes. The Swiss Confederation consists of 26 cantons: *These cantons are known as half-cantons. The cantons are federated states...
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    Liberation of France (category Vichy France)
    (link) "Le Bilan de la Shoah en France [Le régime de Vichy]" [The Toll of the Holocaust in France [Vichy Regime]]. bseditions.fr. Yad Vashem [1] Archived 11...
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  • period of Vichy rule, of which forty-nine were in the military and twenty-seven were in the foreign legion. In 1940 the antisemitic Vichy-France Law...
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    and September 1940, authorities in West Africa declared allegiance to the Vichy regime, as did the colony of French Gabon in AEF. Gabon fell to Free France...
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    gypsies, and other "undesirable" populations under Vichy's conceptions. The first digit of the NIR was 1 for a male European, 2 for a female European, 3...
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    distinctive colonial flags. These most commonly had a French Tricolour in the canton. As well as the flags of individual colonies, the governors-general of French...
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    Prime Minister Philippe Pétain, withdrew to Vichy. Meanwhile, Walter Stucki's deputy, Legation Councillor Henry de Torrenté (1893–1962), remained in Paris...
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    arrondissement of Vichy, for many years it was the capital of a unique canton until 1985, at which point a decree separated this canton into two parts :...
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  • the cantonal police of the French-speaking cantons of Switzerland. "Security" in French is sécurité. The sûreté was originally called Brigade de Sûreté...
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  • François Tanguy-Prigent (category The Vichy 80)
    de Gaulle, holding office from September 1944 to October 1947. He was Minister of Supplies from November 1945 to January 1946. He dissolved the Vichy...
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    Bohuslän former Norwegian province. Black madonna with beheaded child [1] Einsiedeln (Canton of Schwyz): Our Lady of the Hermits In the United States, a reproduction...
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    Banque de l'Indochine was chaired by Paul Baudoin, who in the summer of 1940 was the first Foreign Minister of Vichy France. In 1941, the Banque de l'Indochine...
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    population of 334,872 in 2021. Moulins is the prefecture; Montluçon and Vichy are the subprefectures. Its INSEE and post code is 03. Before 2018, the...
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    Maurice Papon (category People of Vichy France)
    commissaire de la République, a high civil servant that replaced Vichy's prefects. He effectively retained the same functions as during the war. Charles de Gaulle...
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  • resisting the German military occupation of Vichy France in November 1942, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Bernard de Lattre, then aged 15, aided his father's...
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    (Green Mountain), north of the two main cities of the agglomeration that are Vichy and Cusset. The city is accessible through several departmental roads: D...
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    History of Switzerland (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Swiss Confederation has been a federal republic of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of federation that goes back more than 700...
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    Father's Day (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    which was made official in France in 1928 and added to the calendar in Vichy in 1941. In Germany, Father's Day (Vatertag) is celebrated differently from...
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    Demographics of France (category Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques)
    the code de la famille, provided enough financial incentives for large families to double the income of a family with six children. The Vichy government...
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    Rhône (category Rivers of the canton of Vaud)
    The river's source is the Rhône Glacier, at the east edge of the Swiss canton of Valais. The glacier is part of the Saint-Gotthard Massif, which gives...
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  • Republic, First and Second Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, and Vichy France) List of wars in the Low Countries until 1560 List of wars in the...
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    the population was hit by numerous shortages, particularly of tea. The Vichy regime claimed that these shortages were due to the blockade, but the fact...
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    the canton of Vichy 1801–1892: member of the canton of Cusset 1892–1973: member of the canton of Vichy 1973–1985: member of the canton of Vichy-Sud 1985–2015:...
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    Italy in the lead up to, and during, World War II, also collaborating with Vichy France. Eugène Macchini, who was serving as the party's president in the...
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    arrondissement of Vichy since 1942. It was member of the canton of Escurolles from 1801 to 2015. The commune is the centralizer office of the canton of Bellerive-sur-Allier...
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    party, and allowed members of other parties (except Communists and former Vichy regime supporters) to join without compromising their other membership,...
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    France has remained a republic, with the tricolour flag, ever since. The Vichy régime, which dropped the word "republic" in favour of "the French state"...
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