People of the Revolution and the USSR
France state institutions (state)
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The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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- Maxime Weygand Maxime Weygand From Foch's brilliant staff officer to a general of defeat and accommodation
- Jean Chiappe Jean Chiappe The Paris prefect of police, hard on the left and indulgent to the leagues, whose dismissal lit the fuse of 6 February
- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Jean de Lattre de Tassigny The general who defied Vichy and led the Liberation Army
- René Bousquet René Bousquet Vichy police chief who negotiated with the occupier