The Third Republic was dismantled, and most of the country was controlled directly by the Axis Powers, while the south was controlled by the collaborationist Vichy government.

The Resistance militia were opposed by the collaborationist French Militia-the paramilitary police force of the German puppet state of Vichy.

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

The French Resistance ( French ; La Résistance française ) is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II.

However, the German occupation authorities and the collaborationist Vichy régime soon began employing increasingly brutal and intimidating tactics to ensure the submission of the French population.

Rundstedt's command of French and his good relationship with the head of the collaborationist Vichy regime, Marshal Philippe Pétain, were considerable assets.

Marshal Philippe Pétain's proclamation of the Vichy regime and of the Révolution nationale after the failure of the Battle of France was acclaimed by Maurras as a " divine surprise ", and he rallied the collaborationist regime.

Algerian Muslims rallied to the French side at the start of World War II as they had done in World War I. Nazi Germany's quick defeat of France, however, and the establishment of the collaborationist Vichy regime, to which the colons were generally sympathetic, not only increased the difficulties of the Muslims but also posed an ominous threat to the Jews in Algeria.

Afterwards he moved sharply to the right and formed the French Popular Party, which would be one of the most collaborationist parties during Vichy France.

The next year, he founded the collaborationist militia, Service d ' ordre légionnaire ( SOL ), that supported Philippe Pétain and Vichy France.

Beginning in 1940, in Marseille, despite the watchful eye of the collaborationist Vichy regime, he and a small group of volunteers hid people at the Villa Air-Bel until they could be smuggled out.

With the leadership of local minister André Trocmé and pastor Edouard Theis, beginning in 1942, the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon risked their lives to hide Jews who were being rounded up by the Nazis and the collaborationist Vichy regime for shipment to the death camps.

For example, Maurice Papon, who was judged in the 1990s for his role in the Vichy collaborationist government, gave orders for the Paris massacre of 1961 as the head of the Parisian police.

During the Nazi Occupation of France in World War II, the Compagnons split into different factions ; those supporting the collaborationist Vichy regime and those in the French Resistance.

Following the dissolution of Grand Orient Freemasonry in Vichy France on 13 August 1940, Plantard wrote a letter dated 16 December 1940 to Marshal Philippe Pétain offering his services to the collaborationist government, referring to a ' terrible Masonic and Jewish conspiracy '.

Doriot resided in collaborationist Vichy France for a time, but he eventually found that it wasn ’ t nearly as Fascist as he had hoped it would be and moved to occupied Paris, where he espoused pro-German and anti-Communist propaganda on Radio Paris.

He then founded the collaborationist National Popular Rally ( RNP ) during the Vichy regime.

The Neo-Socialists, however, evolved toward a form of participatory and nationalist socialism which eventually led them to join with the reactionary right and support the collaborationist Vichy Regime during the Second World War ( René Belin and Marcel Déat became members of the Vichy government ).

Gold fled to the Mediterranean seaport of Marseille in southern France which, although not Nazi occupied, was under the control of the collaborationist Vichy regime.

Due to the German occupation and the collaborationist attitude of the Vichy government, he left France and went to Argentina in January 1942.

Jacques Charles Noel Dugé de Bernonville ( December 20, 1897 – April 26, 1972 ) was a French collaborationist and senior police officer in the Milice of the Vichy regime in France.

In 1943 he was appointed as a commander of the collaborationist Milice, the Vichy police.

The 17 October 1961 massacre appears to have been intentional, as has been demonstrated by historian Jean-Luc Einaudi, who won a trial against Maurice Papon in 1999 — the latter was convicted in 1998 on charges of crimes against humanity for his role under the Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II.

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

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.

During World War II the local government declared its allegiance to the Vichy government, despite widespread support for Charles de Gaulle.

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.

Nazi Germany occupied three-fifths of France's territory, leaving the rest in the southeast to the new Vichy government.

* 1940 – World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.

* 1940 – World War II: the United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.

* 1942 – Holocaust: Vel'd ' Hiv Roundup ( Rafle du Vel'd ' Hiv ): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13, 152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.

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

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

Britain, fearing that Nazi Germany would gain full control of Lebanon and Syria by pressure on the weak Vichy government, sent its army into Syria and Lebanon.

During the Second World War, the island was the site of the Battle of Madagascar between the Vichy government and the British.

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.

* 1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.

* July 23 – WWII: French marshal Philippe Pétain, who headed the Vichy government during WWII, goes on trial for treason.

** Holocaust: By order of the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13, 000 – 20, 000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.

In World War II, the Vichy regime remained in control until 1943, when members of Gen. Charles De Gaulle's provisional government assumed control of all French West Africa.

Lille was part of the zone under control of the German commander in Brussels, and was never controlled by the Vichy government in France.

After France fell to the Germans in 1940, the Vichy government administered Madagascar until 1942, when British Empire troops occupied the strategic island in the Battle of Madagascar in order to preclude its seizure by the Japanese.

More recently, the historian Tony Judt used the term to describe Marshal Philippe Pétain of the French Vichy government.

On the first day of the school year in 1942, Derrida was expelled from his lycée by French administrators implementing anti-Semitic quotas set by the Vichy government.

The wartime Vichy government enacted a master plan for redevelopment in 1941 under the CRI agency for reconstruction, led by appointed urban planner Felix Brunau.