Pétainism

Origin

After chief of state of Vichy France Philippe_Pétain.

Full definition of Pétainism

Noun

1. The political philosophy associated with Philippe Pétain
• 1985, Harry Roderick Kedward, Occupied France: collaboration and resistance, 1940-1944, Wiley-Blackwell, page 19:Secondly, Pétainism was identified with common sense and realism. No argument against Pétain could start from a sound basis: it was made to look absurd, and people who objected to his leadership were 'flying in the face of fact'.
• 1985, Harry Roderick Kedward, Roger Austin, Vichy France and the Resistance: culture & ideology, Taylor & Francis, page 236:In such ways the favoured status of Pétainism within Nazi-Occupied Europe limped on until the Allied invasions of 1944.
• 2006, Richard Vinen, The unfree French: life under the occupation, Allen Lane, page 209:Giraud's escape from the Koenigstein prison camp did not mark a break with Pétainism; on the contrary, it was helped by elements of the Vichy intelligence service.

Synonyms

• Vichyism

Related terms

• Pétainist