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...battle line toward the still-sleeping village of St. Pierre, a lone bristle-bearded Breton sailor ran down to the quai to greet it, his wooden sabots clattering and slipping on the icy streets. In the still morning air the whole harbor could hear him bilingually swearing: "Pétain, le sacre bleu cochon, le old goat!" . . . With trembling hands he lashed the first corvette line to a bollard. "Vive De Gaulle," he shouted. "At last I can say it. Vive De Gaulle...
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...
What Hermann Göing and Henri Pétain talked about on this, their first meeting; what the lesser men in their entourage-Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan, Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ambassador Otto Abetz-said to one another was not revealed as the meeting ended. There were many subjects to discuss, many tidbits of concessions that the Germans could offer, most notably the release of the 1,500,000 war prisoners and the restoration of Paris to Vichyfrance. The Germans wanted the Marshal to sign some sort...
...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...
...represented "the marked will of the French Government to engage itself ever more constantly on a path of durable and fruitful European collaboration." As the Marshal stepped down from his car in the heavily guarded Vichy station, he was greeted by a solitary cry of "Vive Pétain...