Vichy regime
- noun
- /ˈviːʃi rɪˈʒeɪm/
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régimen de Vichy
- Many French consider their country's tactics in the Algerian independence struggle a black stain on their history, similar to the shame surrounding the Vichy regime during World War II.
Examples
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The Paris Police Chief in 1961, Maurice Papon (1910-2007), had been a major collaborator with the Vichy regime that had taken power in France after its defeat by Hitler's Germany at the beginning of the Second World War.
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This also contributes to discredit further the Vichy regime vis a vis it's, you know, it's population.
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Her pessimism derived from the consolidation of the Vichy regime, the German victories in Greece, and the preparations for the attack against the Soviet Union.
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His opposition to the Vichy regime got him arrested and killed.
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Camus was unemployed, debilitated by tuberculosis, and appalled by the surge of anti-Semitism under the Vichy regime.
Synonyms
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The government in France that worked with Nazi Germany during World War II, based in a town in central France
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'regime' combined with the proper name 'Vichy' clearly signals 'the government associated with Vichy', so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a particular government. However, the crucial historical details (the 1940–44 wartime period and collaboration with Nazi Germany) are not derivable from the parts alone, so the meaning is only partially predictable without background knowledge.
Etymology
Vichy regime takes its name from the town of Vichy, where France's regime moved after the country lost to Germany in 1940. Because that government 'worked with' Nazi Germany, the phrase now refers to the French government from 1940 to 1944 that cooperated with the occupiers.