Word: florentin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain spent aboard his train. Next morning, under sealed orders, the train crossed the demarkation line at Moulins. Eighty miles southeast of Paris it was shunted off on a branch line near the town of St.-Florentin, where another special train waited. In that train, his Falstaffian sides swaddled in uniform, sat Hermann Wilhelm Göing. Marshal Pétain had been told to wear civilian clothes...
...much Marshal Pétain conceded in his meeting at St.-Florentin did not matter particularly. From many places last week came evidence that Vichyfrance was Hitler's. In Washington, General Robert Jean Claude Roger Odic, until recently commander of the French Air Force in North Africa, joined the Free French forces of General Charles de Gaulle...