He was a regent for the French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems during the Nazi occupation of Vichy France which implemented the eugenics policies there ; his association with the Foundation led to allegations of collaborating with the Nazis.

The French capital was soon moved again to Vichy.

The Vichy government signed an agreement with Japan to allow the Japanese military transit through French Indochina.

From 16 June 1940-1942 the colonial administration remained loyal to Vichy France ( from 1942, under Free French ), but 25 September 1942-13 October 1946 they were, like Madagascar, under British occupation.

All British Army cavalry regiments had been mechanised since 1 March 1942 when the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons ( Yeomanry ) was converted to a motorised role, following mounted service against the Vichy French in Syria the previous year.

In June 1940, during the early stages of World War II, France fell and the colony was then ruled by the pro-Axis Vichy ( French ) government.

In 1941, the Italians were defeated and the Vichy forces in French Somaliland were isolated.

* 1942 – World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers.

When the French public were asked to select which film they wanted to see most, having been told by the Vichy government that soon no more American films would be allowed in France, the overwhelming majority chose it over all others.

Reflecting the divided loyalties of the time, part of the Foreign Legion joined the Free French movement while another part served the Vichy government.

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.

For example, 76, 000 Jews would be deported during the German occupation, often with the help of the Vichy French authorities, and murdered in the Nazis ' extermination camps.

After the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir in 1940, where the British fleet destroyed a large part of the French navy, still under command of Vichy France, that killed about 1, 100 sailors, there was nationwide indignation and a feeling of distrust in the French forces, leading to the events of the Battle of Dakar.

The Vichy regime flew to Germany when Paris was freed, and the interim Provisional Government of the French Republic was quickly put into place by the Free French.

Bogart gained his first real romantic lead in 1942's Casablanca, playing Rick Blaine, the hard-pressed expatriate nightclub owner, hiding from the past and negotiating a fine line among Nazis, the French underground, the Vichy prefect and unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend.

Ribbentrop treated the ensuring complaints by the Vichy French government over the expulsions in a " most dilatory fashion ".

Ribbentrop also tried unsuccessfully to arrange for the Vichy French troops in North Africa to be formally placed under German command.

With the fall of the French government, and the creation of the Vichy regime, French Indochina was left completely vulnerable.

During World War II, Lebanese troops fought in Lebanon with the Vichy French forces against Free French and British forces.

During the Battle of Dakar, which took place off the coast of Dakar on September 23 – 25, 1940, the British navy attempted to rally the colonial administration in Dakar to the Allied cause and detach it from Vichy.

While they did not eject the French colonial administration, the occupation authorities directed policy from behind the scenes in a parallel of Vichy France.

Limoges was an unoccupied city, but under the administration of the collaborationist Vichy government and still a perilous refuge for Jews.

In 1940, during World War II, Japan invaded Indochina, keeping the Vichy French colonial administration in place as a Japanese puppet.

The Algerian administration vigorously enforced the anti-Semitic laws imposed by Vichy, which stripped Algerian Jews of their French citizenship.

However, Legitimists joined Maurras in celebrating the fall of the Third Republic after the 1940 Battle of France as a " divine surprise ", and many of them entered Pétain's Vichy administration as a golden opportunity to impose a reactionary program in occupied France.

The military history of France during World War II covers the period from 1939 until 1940, which witnessed French military participation under the French Third Republic ( established in Paris then Bordeaux ), and the period from 1940 until 1945, which was marked by mainland and overseas military administration and influence struggles for the French colonies ( under the command of Admiral François Darlan ) between the French State under Marshal Philippe Pétain ( Vichy then Sigmaringen ), the Free French Forces under General Charles de Gaulle ( London ) and the Army of Africa under General Henri Giraud ( Algiers ).

Refusing to participate in the Vichy government, he resigned and was arrested in June 1940 by Philippe Petain's administration.

He returned to the Conseil d ' État, now under the administration of the Vichy regime, and was sworn in by Marshal Philippe Pétain.

On March 9, 1945, the Imperial Japan overthrew the Vichy French administration of Jean Decoux in French Indochina.

The film was split into two parts because the Vichy administration had imposed a maximum time limit of 90 minutes for feature films.

A supporter of the Vichy administration headed by Marshal Pétain, Léon Daudet died in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

In 1940, when France fell to the Nazi German armies, the occupied French administration, the Vichy, took power not only in France ( under German rule ), but also in France's overseas colonies, including Cambodia.

He advised the German military administration in Paris and was responsible for dealings with Vichy France.

On 9 March 1945, the Japanese staged a coup d ' état against the Vichy French administration, jailing all French police.

In 1941 British-led forces defeated the Vichy French during the Syria-Lebanon campaign, which included a battle over Deir, and they handed administration of the region to the Free French.

An unoccupied region, the Zone libre was left relatively free to be governed by a rump French administration based in Vichy, which also administered the occupied zones albeit under severe restrictions.

The government subsequently moved from Bordeaux to Clermont-Ferrand, and then, at Baudouin's suggestion, to Vichy, considered to be a perfect place for the administration.

Imperial Japan pressures the South-East Asian colony of French Indochina, which is controlled by Vichy France, into making important military concessions, but leaves the French army and administration intact.

After a brief internment by the Germans, he returned to civil life as an industrial administrator, but was fired in 1943 for speaking out against the collaborationist administration and the Vichy regime, regarding the Service du travail obligatoire and deportations of Frenchmen to German labor camps.

During World War II, the Vichy regime stripped him of some of these jobs and distinctions because of his quiet refusal to collaborate with Vichy and the German occupation, but Valéry continued, throughout these troubled years, to publish and to be active in French cultural life, especially as a member of the Académie française.

Most French men and women had faith in the Vichy government and its figurehead, Marshal Pétain, who continued to be widely-regarded as the " savior " of France, and this generous opinion of Vichy continued until its unpopular policies and collaboration with the foreign occupiers became broadly apparent.

At the same time he continued to express elements of his longstanding germanophobia by arguing in La Seule France that Frenchmen must not be drawn to the German model and by hosting anti-German conferences and he opposed both the " dissidents " in London and the collaborators in Paris and Vichy ( such as Lucien Rebatet, Robert Brasillach, Pierre Laval, or Marcel Déat ).

Hitler continued to ask whether the French government was prepared to fight at his side, wanting Vichy to declare war against Britain.

The Vichy French continued to hold the colony after the Italian collapse until in October 1941, after a 101-day British blockade, French Somaliland fell.

Dismissed from his museum posts by the Vichy government, he continued his research privately and published three volumes on China and the Mongols during the war.

But others, including the militant activist Célestin Lainé ( later known as Neven Henaff ), continued to make overtures to the Nazis, hoping for their support for an independent Brittany with ties to Germany, The more supportive nationalists were of the Germans, they reasoned, the more likely Berlin would be to abandon Vichy and create a Breton state.

They continued production of the gun for their own armed forces and supplied some to the Vichy French.

Following the fall of northern France to the Germans, the Polish-French-Spanish cryptological organization, sponsored by French Major Gustave Bertrand, continued its work at " Cadix " in the Vichy " Free Zone " until it was occupied by German forces in November 1942.

The Radical-Socialist Party continued to be the main party of the Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ), but was discredited after the war due to the role of Radical members of the National Assembly in voting for the establishment of the Vichy regime.