Pétainism

After chief of state of Vichy France Philippe Pétain, +‎ -ism.

Pétainism (uncountable)

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.

• Vichyism

• Pétainist

• Pimientas, impatiens