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Philippe Pétain
Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain, better known as Marshal Pétain, was a French military officer who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II.
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politics · Leader of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944 · politician · diplomat · military officer · military personnel · marshal · also Philippe Pétain, Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain, Marshal Pétain, Philippe Petain, Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Petain, Marshal Petain
Born 24 April 1856 · Died 23 July 1951 · Q5721
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2026· 4 entries
Public attention spiked: 29,333 Wikipedia readers in one day, 15.9× the usual 1,843, with 3 article edits. Coverage that week: “La messe de Verdun en hommage à Philippe Pétain se termine au tribunal : place au verdict” (TF1).
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TF1: La messe de Verdun en hommage à Philippe Pétain se termine au tribunal : place au verdict
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The New York Times: Philippe Pétain
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2023· 2 entries
The Economist: A new book revisits the trial of Philippe Pétain in 1945
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CU Boulder News & Events: McClanahan Lecture: Phocion the Good and Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France: Parallel Lives?
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2020· 1 entry
Libération rated the claim “Olivier Faure affirme que «La dernière statue de Pétain a été déboulonnée à Vichy en 2014. »” La mairie de Vichy dément cette information..
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2018· 1 entry
Dallas Morning News: So why is there a street in Dallas named for French Nazi collaborator Philippe Pétain?
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2017· 1 entry
The New York City Mayor's Office considered removing the sidewalk ribbon denoting the parade for Pétain, given his collaborationist government in World War II
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1951· 5 entries
Died 1951-07-23.
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That Reynaud, as Premier of France, said to Pétain on that day that they must seek an armistice
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“Opis: o procesie Philippe’a Petaina po II wojnie światowej.”
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“The only wealth you possess is your labour... France will become again what she should never have ceased to be—an essentially agricultural nation. Like the giant of mythology, she will recover all her strength by contact with the soil.”
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“La terre, elle, ne ment pas [The land, it does not lie].”
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1943· 1 entry
Pétain accepted the creation of a collaborationist armed militia (the Milice) under the command of Joseph Darnand, who, along with German forces, led a campaign of repression against the French resistance ("Maquis")
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1941· 1 entry
“From several regions of France, I have felt an ill-wind rising for some time... the authority of my government is contested... a genuine malaise is gripping the French people”
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1940· 4 entries
Career landmark: Head of State of Vichy France (1940–1944).
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Career landmark: French co-prince of Andorra (1940–1944).
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Career landmark: Deputy Prime Minister of France (1940–1940).
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Career landmark: President of the Council (1940–1942).
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1939· 2 entries
Career landmark: ambassador of France to Spain (1939–1940).
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Without even the prototype of a bomber aeroplane capable of reaching Berlin and coming back
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1938· 1 entry
Pétain encouraged and assisted the writer André Maurois in gaining election to the Académie française – an election which was highly contested, in part due to Maurois' Jewish origin
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1936· 1 entry
But very few of these MAS-36 rifles had been issued to the troops by 1940
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1935· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of State (1935–1935).
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1934· 2 entries
Career landmark: Minister of War (1934–1934).
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But could not reverse 15 years of inactivity and constant cutbacks
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1932· 1 entry
And 1933 were cancelled due to lack of funds, and recruitment to the armed forces fell off
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1931· 1 entry
Pétain was elected a Fellow of the Académie française
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1929· 1 entry
Career landmark: Seat 18 of the Académie française (1929–1945).
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1928· 1 entry
Pétain had supported the creation of an independent air force removed from the control of the army, and on 9 February 1931, following his retirement as Vice-Chairman of the Supreme War Council, he was appointed Inspector
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1924· 1 entry
The National Assembly was elected on a platform of reducing the length of national service to one year, to which Pétain was almost violently opposed
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1920· 1 entry
Career landmark: vice president (1920–1931).
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1919· 2 entries
Awarded Collar of the Order of Charles III (1919).
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While nearby summits were given the names of other French generals (Foch, Cordonnier, Mangin, Castelnau and Joffre)
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1918· 2 entries
Awarded Médaille militaire (1918).
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Awarded Marshal of France (1918).
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1917· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1917).
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1916· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1916).
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At the opening of the Battle of Verdun in 1916 Pétain is said to have been fetched during the night from a Paris hotel by a staff officer who knew that he could be found with Eugénie Hardon.
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Pétain is said to have been fetched during the night from a Paris hotel by a staff officer who knew that he could be found with Eugénie Hardon
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1915· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1915).
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1914· 3 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1914).
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After rejecting Pétain's first marriage proposal, Hardon had married and divorced François de Hérain by 1914 when she was 35.
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Replied that there was "no comparison" with the present situation
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1901· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1901).
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1878· 1 entry
And 1899, he served in various garrisons with different battalions of the chasseurs, the elite light infantry of the French Army
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1876· 1 entry
And pursued a career in the military, achieving the rank of colonel by the outbreak of World War I
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1875· 1 entry
With the intention of preparing for the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, Pétain enrolled in the Dominican college of Albert le Grand in Arcueil
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1870· 1 entry
Due to the Franco-Prussian War and in 1914 due to World War I
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1856· 1 entry
Born 1856-04-24.
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