Where is vichy

Since July , upon being invaded and defeated by Nazi German forces, the autonomous French state had been split into two regions. One was occupied by German troops, and the other was unoccupied, governed by a more or less puppet regime centered in Vichy, a spa region about miles southeast of Paris, and led by Gen. Philippe Petain , a World War I hero. When Allied forces arrived in North Africa to team up with the Free French Forces to beat back the Axis occupiers, and French naval crews, emboldened by the Allied initiative, scuttled the French fleet off Toulon, in southeastern France, to keep it from being used by those same Axis powers, Hitler retaliated.

In violation of the armistice agreement, German troops moved into southeastern-Vichy, France. From that point forward, Petain became virtually useless, and France merely a future gateway for the Allied counteroffensive in Western Europe, namely, D-Day.

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Much of the focus on everyday lived experiences is detailed, nuanced and truly interesting. But where Mallet goes beyond most typical examinations of the everyday in the context of the Occupation era, is through her examination of the lived experiences of the Vichyssois post-Liberation, up to the present day. The final layer of the book is the town itself.

Having dealt with the lived experiences of its inhabitants, Mallet also, in the course of the book, examines the development of the town—its infrastructure and governance; the changing fortunes of the tourist trade—in an attempt to capture the layers of memory prevalent in the town. Only, this reviewer would argue, could a local produce such a vivid examination of their hometown. Such a view, as Mallet, argues, is somewhat outdated.

It is widely acknowledged that it took foreign historians—Robert O. Paxton chief amongst them—to begin to prise open the realities of Vichy government and to unpick the complexities of policy, propaganda and reality none of which, as subsequent research, including my own work Lees , has demonstrated, ever really reflected one another.

But that is to ignore that French historians were working within the constraints of a conservative French state, especially in the de Gaulle era, and did not necessarily have the same methodological training or perhaps imagination as their Anglo-Saxon counterparts. The town comes to life in the pages of the book. She makes a convincing point. Having touted for business as seat of government in , during the Franco-Prussian War, at a time when the government fled to Bordeaux before returning to Versailles , the spa town was on the lookout for the economic benefits of playing capital city.

Few could blame the local authorities for welcoming the elected representatives of the two houses of parliament in July —the town had already shifted from a genteel resort into a place of refuge for injured soldiers and refugees; parliamentarians offered likely cash boosts to most hotels. The local population, and the physical infrastructure of the town, had the presence of the government imposed on them, with all the daily ceremonial acts and constant exposure to governmental missives and propaganda that this entailed.

The project of National Revolution—little more than a series of slogans by —was played out in miniature before the eyes of the Vichyssois. They did not choose to gift the name of their town to a regime which went onto deport 76, Jews in the name of the National Revolution.

The aftermath of the war has truly brought mixed fortunes for the locals. On the one hand, it is not surprising that, having been subjected to the presence of the Marshal for so long, the people of the town appeared to back the maintenance of French Algeria in the s, adopting a stance eventually supported only by the far-right.

On the other, the two facets to Vichy—the history of the spa town visited by the great and the good of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries with its enduring health and beauty products, and the legacy of those fateful four years in the Second World War—have continued to bring some degree of commercial and economic prosperity for the town. As Mallet points out, present-day tourists fall into either one or the other camp either interested in the spa and Vichy-branded goods or the Occupation , but some fall into both.

Within a matter of pages in the introduction, Mallet punctures the myth that the municipal archives of the town are closed to researchers. Population and housings of Vichy Inhabitants in :. Population Vichy. Housing Vichy. Hotel Vichy. Book now! Best Price Guaranteed, no booking fees, pay at the hotel with our partner Booking. Find all hotels of Vichy : Hotel Vichy.

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