20.07.2019
Philip G. Nord. France 1940: Defending the Republic (2016)
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France suffered a crushing defeat in 1940, and its democratic constitution was then set aside to make way for the authoritarian regime of Vichy (Vichy France)*. Philip Nord argues that's the result of poor military decision-making on the part of the army brass, and that the turn to authoritarianism thereafter was the result of a betrayal by the nation’s military and administrative elites, more interested in national regeneration than in democracy.
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*) the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II
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Philip Nord is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. He is the author of five books on French history since the Revolution, among them "France 1940: Defending the Republic" (Yale University Press, 2015).
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https://youtu.be/wsiTYb9OEnM
Philip G. Nord. France 1940: Defending the Republic (2016)
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France suffered a crushing defeat in 1940, and its democratic constitution was then set aside to make way for the authoritarian regime of Vichy (Vichy France)*. Philip Nord argues that's the result of poor military decision-making on the part of the army brass, and that the turn to authoritarianism thereafter was the result of a betrayal by the nation’s military and administrative elites, more interested in national regeneration than in democracy.
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*) the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II
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Philip Nord is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. He is the author of five books on French history since the Revolution, among them "France 1940: Defending the Republic" (Yale University Press, 2015).
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https://youtu.be/wsiTYb9OEnM
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