Vichy

• Published in: Ernest Lapointe p. 324
• Main Author: Betcherman, Lita-Rose
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Canada University of Toronto Press 01.03.2002
• Subjects: Armed conflict; Authoritarianism; Behavioral sciences; Broadcasting industry; Business; Economic policy; Economics; Executive branch; Fascism; Federal government structure; Government; Government cabinets; Government officials; Group identity; Heads of state; Industrial sectors; Industry; Local government; Military science; National government; National identity; Nationalism; Nazism; Political ideologies; Political philosophy; Political science; Prime ministers; Provincial government; Psychology; Service industries; Social psychology; War; War economics; War effort
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442674592.34
• ISBN: 0802035752; 9780802035752

While German troops occupied most of France, Hitler devised the fiction of a free French state in the southern part of the country and administered under Marshal Pétain from the spa city of Vichy. The establishment of Vichy caused a rift between English and French Canada. English Canada regarded Vichy France as Hitlerʹs puppet state, pure and simple. French Canada, largely because of Marshal Pétainʹs enormous prestige, accepted Vichy as the legitimate government of France and an improvement over the anticlerical Third Republic. Lapointe venerated Pétain and could not believe that the old marshal and General Weygand were traitors, as