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Vichy

[vish-ee, vee-shee]

noun

  1. a city in central France: provisional capital of unoccupied France 1940–1942; hot springs.

  2. (often lowercase)vichy water.



Vichy

/ viʃi, ˈviːʃiː /

noun

  1. Latin name: Vicus Calidus.a town and spa in central France, on the River Allier: seat of the collaborationist government under Marshal Pétain (1940–44); mineral waters bottled for export. Pop: 26528 (1999)

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Alternately, his tone was infused with contempt, sarcasm or genuine sympathy for his subjects who had been victims of brutality unleashed by the Gestapo or secret police of the Vichy regime.

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Eventually, the U.S. surrenders after a German nuclear attack; and America is occupied by Nazi Germany along the eastern seaboard and Japan on the West Coast, with a pseudo-independent Vichy regime in the Rockies.

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That led the Nazis to burn Feuchtwanger’s books and his imprisonment in France under the Vichy regime.

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In “The Great Yes,” Kentridge turns to a creaky old cargo ship smelling of rotted oranges that sailed from Marseille to Martinique in 1941 overcrowded with some 300 passengers escaping Vichy France.

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Like the other Vichy Republicans, Nikki Haley is auditioning for a position as Trump’s vice president or other high-ranking member of his regime.

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