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    The zone libre (French pronunciation: [zon libʁ], free zone) was a partition of the French metropolitan territory during World War II, established at...
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    previously unoccupied zone in the south known as zone libre ("free zone") was also occupied and renamed zone sud ("south zone"). Its role in France was...
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    Vichy France (redirect from Vichy zone)
    established itself in the resort town of Vichy in the unoccupied "free zone" (zone libre), where it remained responsible for the civil administration of France...
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    administered by the German Army (Zone occupée) in the northern and western part of France and the Zone libre (Free zone) in the south during World War II...
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    vast majority of synagogues remained opened during the whole war in the Zone libre. The Vichy government even protected them after attacks as a way to deny...
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    from the French colonial empire. An unoccupied region in the south, the Zone libre, was left relatively free to be governed by a rump French administration...
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    to the German occupation of the city to Creuse as it was in the zone libre ("free zone").[citation needed] In 1940, French humourist Popeck, then four...
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    Aside from Noir Désir, his other musical endeavours include : the trio "Zone Libre", which became a quintet for 6 albums and tours. the guitar-oud duo with...
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    hostilities, dividing France into two zones: an Occupied zone in the north and west, and a nominally "free zone" (Zone libre) in the south and east. Known officially...
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    occupied a small area in the south-east. The Vichy regime retained the zone libre (free zone) in the south. Following the Allied invasion of French North Africa...
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  • German client state established in June 1940 under in the non-occupied Zone libre, officially neutral and independent until invaded by the Axis in November...
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    officially disbanded in 1942 after the German invasion of the "Free Zone" (Zone libre) which was directly ruled by the Vichy regime. At the beginning of...
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    army marched to the Swiss border and secured the demarcation line with Zone libre. For the rest of 1940 the army was assigned to occupation duties in France...
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    Republic. It administered the zone libre in the south of France until November 1942, when Germans and Italians occupied the zone under Case Anton following...
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    continuation of armed struggle by ex-French military personnel in the Zone libre (southern half of metropolitan France). All three groups were deemed "terrorists"...
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    Free France (redirect from France Libre)
    Free France (French: France libre) was a political entity claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic...
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    former Zone libre of France under the control of the Vichy regime. In January 1944, the radicalized Milice moved into what had been the zone occupée...
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  • The Zona Libre, or Free Zone, was a free trade zone in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas along the Mexico–United States border established in 1858. The goal...
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    authoritarian government in the spa town of Vichy, in the southern zone libre ("free zone"). Though nominally independent, Vichy France became a collaborationist...
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    except Alsace-Lorraine, as it had done since 1940. The Italian occupation zone was abolished following the removal of Mussolini from office and the Italian...
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    ISBN 9781315413082. Ebako, Éliane. Le ralliement du Gabon à la France libre: Une guerre franco-française, septembre–décembre 1940. PhD thesis. University...
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  • Look up free zone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Free zone may refer to Free Zone (region), part of Western Sahara Zone libre ('free zone'), a partition...
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  • in passing the demarcation line from the occupied french territory to Zone libre, the unoccupied territory of Vichy France. In 2018, at the age of 102...
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  • (newspaper) [fr] La Semaine [fr] L'Union française [fr] Territory Zone libre Occupied zone Syria and Lebanon mandate Jewish affairs Military Dissolution Operation...
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    French Constitutional Law of 1940 The Eighty Philippe Pétain Hôtel du Parc Zone libre Participants Joseph Antignac Jean-Marie Bergeret [fr] René Bousquet Louis...
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    direct control over French territory was limited to the southern "free zone" (zone libre), the Vichy regime considered itself to be neutral and not part of...
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    camps: Maman revient pauvre orphelin, Dreyfus (1974), L'Atelier (1979) and Zone libre (1990). In 1998, L'Atelier returned to Théâtre Hébertot in Paris, achieved...
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  • with his brother Maurice to escape from Nazi occupied France to the Zone Libre. Joffo was refused by many publishers before being encouraged by the newly...
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    (newspaper) [fr] La Semaine [fr] L'Union française [fr] Territory Zone libre Occupied zone Syria and Lebanon mandate Jewish affairs Military Dissolution Operation...
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    (Operation Torch) began in November 1942, Germany and Italy occupied the Zone libre, thus ending any factual sovereignty of the Vichy government over Metropolitan...
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