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Their politics may be different but such people share the morality of Laval and Pétain ... they are willing not only to tolerate evil, but to excuse it ... Both Jim Prior and Keith Joseph know that George Ward and Grunwick are not perfect, nor was Czechoslovakia perfect in 1938.
( These groups had contacts with some conservative politicians, among whom were Laval and Marshal Philippe Pétain.
In October 1940, Laval understood collaboration more or less in the same sense as Pétain.
The meetings between Pétain and Adolf Hitler, and between Laval and Hitler, are often used as showing the collaboration of the French leaders and the Nazis.
These actions by Laval were a factor in his dismissal on 13 December, when Pétain asked all the ministers to sign a collective letter of resignation during a full cabinet meeting.
The following day, Pétain announced his decision to remove Laval from the government.
Laval and Pétain in Frank Capra documentary film Divide and Conquer ( newsreel ) | Divide and Conquer ( 1943 )
* Gun, Nerin E., Les secrets des archives américaines, Pétain, Laval, De Gaulle, Paris: Albin Michel, 1979
In December 1940, Vichy Chief of State Philippe Pétain appointed him Foreign Minister and vice-premier on 13 December 1940 in replacement of Pierre Laval.
Pierre Laval in France was judged and sentenced to death, while Philippe Pétain was also sentenced to death, but Charles de Gaulle later commuted his sentence into a life condemnation.
After recovering, he became a supporter of Pierre Laval, who supported more reactionary policies than Pétain and had become Prime Minister of the Vichy regime in 1942.
On 30 June Pierre Laval suggested to Pétain, Baudouin and Raphael Alibert that the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies should be called together in joint session to consider new constitutional changes.
Intrigues followed, and by mid-November Baudouin, Yves Bouthillier, Marcel Peyrouton, ( Minister of the Interior ), Raphael Alibert, Admiral Darlan and General Huntziger were putting pressure upon Pétain to have Laval dismissed from office.
Such a defection was in keeping with Morand ’ s ideology and his long-term admiration for Philippe Pétain, and association with the daughter of Pierre Laval, the Comtesse de Chambrun.
Laval and agreed
During the same meeting in East Prussia with Count Ciano, Pierre Laval arrived and promptly agreed to Hitler's and Ribbentrop's demands that he place French police under the command of more radical anti-Semitics and conscript and send hundreds of thousands of French workers to work in Germany's war industry.
But in November 1935, the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare and the French Prime Minister, Pierre Laval, had secret discussions in which they agreed to concede two-thirds of Abyssinia to Italy.
On September 10, Pierre Laval, Anthony Eden, and even Sir Samuel Hoare agreed on limitations to sanctions against Italy.
He also helped people to avoid being taken into the Service du travail obligatoire ( STO ), the Nazi forced-labour program agreed upon with Pierre Laval, by creating in Grenoble the first refugee for resistants to the STO.
Laval and maintain
Laval had to maintain Vichy's authority to prevent Germany from installing a Quisling Government made up of French Nazis.
Laval and firm
After graduating from Laval in 1964, Mulroney joined the Montreal law firm now known as Ogilvy Renault, which at the time was the largest law firm in the Commonwealth of Nations.
Laval and .
* 1623 – Fran &# 231 ; ois de Laval, French bishop ( d. 1708 )
* 1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.
The technique involves the expansion of a gas or mixture of gases through a de Laval nozzle from a high pressure reservoir into a vacuum chamber.
The fluorescence signal is captured by a photomultiplier a known distance downstream of the de Laval nozzle.
# Emma, married Guy de Laval IV, Lord Laval.
There may be some confusion here, however, in that Guy's son, Guy de Laval V, was also married to an Emma who described herself as the daughter of Reginald de Dunstanville, Earl of Cornwall, who was an illegitimate son of Henry I as noted below.
* 1658 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
* 1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
Three years after the volcano's last eruption, on 19 December 1973, the Cousteau team was filming on Deception Island, Antarctica when Michel Laval, Calypsos second in command, was struck and killed by a propeller of the helicopter that was ferrying between Calypso and the island.
To this end, Ribbentrop appointed a colleague, Otto Abetz, from the Dienststelle Ambassador to France with instructions to promote the political career of Pierre Laval, who Ribbentrop had decided was the French politician most favourable to Germany.
In November 1942, following Operation Torch, Ribbentrop met with Pierre Laval in Munich.
He presented Laval with an ultimatum for Germany's occupation of the French unoccupied zone and Tunisia.
Ciano was amazed at the way that Laval fell in with the German demands, and thought it all typical Ribbentrop that he should remind Laval in a very tactless way how this forest had once served as Napoleon's headquarters.
The December 1935 Hoare – Laval Pact was an attempt by British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare and French Prime Minister Pierre Laval to end the conflict in Abyssinia by proposing to partition the country into an Italian sector and an Abyssinian sector.
Hoare and Laval were forced to resign, and the British and French governments dissociated themselves from the two men.
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He was offered, but declined, a Rhodes Scholarship upon this graduation from Laval in 1905.
St-Laurent worked as a lawyer from 1905 to 1941, also becoming a professor of law at Université Laval in 1914.
Louis Hennepin, Lahontan, Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières, Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, and Laval.
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* 1856 – Henri Philippe Pétain, French soldier and statesman ( d. 1951 )
The Vichy Regime – led by Philippe Pétain, the aging war hero of the First World War – was originally intended to be a temporary, care-taker regime, to supervise French administration before the soon-expected defeat of Britain.
Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
While Prince Louis II's sympathies were strongly pro-French, he tried to keep Monaco neutral during World War II but supported the Vichy French government of his old army colleague, Marshall Philippe Pétain.
Joffre had support from Henri Philippe Pétain, and there were a number of reports and commissions organised by the government.
According to long-time friend and colleague Marc Lalonde, the clerically influenced dictatorships of António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal ( the Estado Novo ), Francisco Franco in Spain ( the Spanish State ), and Marshal Philippe Pétain in Vichy France were seen as political role models by many youngsters educated at elite Jesuit schools in Quebec.
Marshal Philippe Pétain surrendered to Germany on 22 June 1940, and this gave birth to the so-called Vichy France republic.
Pétain had earlier refused to continue the war against Germany from African territory alongside Great Britain.
** Philippe Pétain, French World War I marshal, leader of Vichy France ( b. 1856 )
* July 23 – WWII: French marshal Philippe Pétain, who headed the Vichy government during WWII, goes on trial for treason.
* May 18 – Marshal Philippe Pétain is named vice-premier of France.
** Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France and immediately asks Germany for peace terms.
* April 24 – Henri Philippe Pétain, French soldier and statesman ( d. 1951 )
A pessimistic speech by Lloyd George on 7 May 1941 led Churchill to compare him with Philippe Pétain.
* Abd el-Krim led resistance in Morocco from 1920 to 1924 against French and Spanish colonial armies ten times as strong as the guerilla force, led by General Philippe Pétain.
That evening, French Army chief of staff, General de Castelnau, advised his commander-in-chief, General Joffre, that the French Second Army, under General Philippe Pétain, ought to be urgently brought up to reinforce the Verdun sector.
Note the use of handgrenades and flamethrower Castelnau appointed General Philippe Pétain commander of the Verdun area and ordered the French Second Army to the battle sector.
Pétain took over on 25 February and appointed colonel Maurice de Barescut, a longtime associate and proven executive, as the permanent Chief of Staff in charge of the Verdun sector.
Pétain decided that the Verdun forts should be strongly re-garrisoned to form the principal bulwarks of a new defence.
On 29 February, the German attack was slowed down at the village of Douaumont by heavy snowfall and a tenacious defence by the French 33rd Infantry Regiment which had been commanded by Pétain himself in the years prior to the war.
Higher up, Pétain also refused to support a renewed attempt to recapture Douaumont, invoking insufficient heavy artillery availability at the time.
General Pétain had attempted to spare his troops by remaining on the defensive, but he had been relieved on 1 May from his Verdun command and promoted to lead the overall Centre Army Group which still included the Verdun sector.
General Pétain had been replaced with the more attack-minded General Robert Nivelle, an artillery man by training and by previous command experiences.
The departure of General Pétain from his Verdun command on 1 June, 1916 and his replacement by General Nivelle had a negative impact on the soldiers ' morale to a point that five infantry regiments were affected by short-lived episodes of collective indiscipline.
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