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Born August 26, 1885 • Libourne • France
Died April 15, 1947 (aged 61) • Montrouge • France
Role In Vichy France • World War II

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Malcolm Muggeridge
British journalist and social critic
Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
French general
Marc Bloch
French historian
Pierre Laval.
Pierre Laval
French politician and statesman
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
French politician
Camille Chautemps.
Camille Chautemps
French politician
Déat, c. 1940
Marcel Déat
French politician
Pierre Brossolette
French journalist
Alphonse Juin
French general
Pierre-Étienne Flandin
French politician
Hans Fritzsche
German journalist
Richard Sorge.
Richard Sorge
German journalist
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Simone Weil.
Simone Weil
French philosopher
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
French politician
Georges Bidault
prime minister of France
Paul Reynaud, 1940.
Paul Reynaud
premier of France
World War II: liberation of Paris
Jacques-Philippe Leclerc
French general
Maxime Weygand
French general
Félix Éboué
governor general of French Equatorial Africa

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