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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of central France south-southeast of Paris. A noted spa with hot mineral springs, it was the seat of the collaborationist regime of Henri Philippe Pétain from July 1940, when Germany occupied northern France including Paris, until November 1942, when Germany invaded southern France and assumed control of the entire country.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
Vichy water . Seewater .
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- proper noun A
town inAuvergne ,France , the capital of Vichy France during theWorld War II
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- noun a town in central France (south of Paris) noted for hot mineral springs; was capital of the unoccupied part of France during World War II
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Having talked this very thing with the star of the show and experienced it myself at least twice while in Vichy, it is so flipping prevalent at NASA
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The elected government of France, based in Vichy, was unable to gather enough United Nations votes to censure aggression.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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He was responsible for the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women and children to the Nazi death camps, the 'dejudaised' of companies in Vichy France, the force sale of Jewish property, tortured and repressed Algerians during the Algerian War, and commanded the French police who murdered hundreds of civilians during the Paris massacre of 1961.
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Anne's father Louis Darquier 'de Pellepoix' (this latter addition was his kudos gathering invention) had been a Nazi collaborater and Commissioner for Jewish Affairs in Vichy France.
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What would happen to the statues in Chinese Vichy?
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What would happen to the statues in Chinese Vichy?
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There were French fascists who tried to get power in Vichy, but didn't really succeed until 1944.
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There were French fascists who tried to get power in Vichy, but didn't really succeed until 1944.
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From that day on, from the day of the armistice, a decree, issued in Vichy, ordered General Catroux to abandon his post and to give the reins of the government into the hands of Admiral Decoux.
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The name Vichy only suggested to my mind a kind of beverage.
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