Similar sentiments had been expressed by Hitler and the architects of fascist Italy and Vichy France.
As premier of Vichy France (1942-1944), he pursued a policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany.
Historian Max Ferro said Mitterrand was not alone in feeling torn by his role in the Vichy government.
In Vichy he was said to have done his best to stop the Germans seizing France's gold reserves.
This extraordinary argument came originally from Antonin Morlet, a Vichy doctor and amateur archaeologist who took over the excavation.
Treatmentwise, Bramham advised a marine algae bath (more iodine and chlorine again) coupled with a hit of a Vichy shower.
Like many Vichy officials who later had successful post-war careers, his time as a collaborator was not held against him.
The nostalgic sentiments for Vichy or a French Algeria that once helped galvanise the extreme right have similarly been jettisoned.
In 1945, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during World War Two, was arrested on treason charges.
As Mr Begley notes, Dreyfus's wife, Lucie, changed her name and fled Vichy France for the free zone in the south.
When France was defeated by Germany in 1940 Maurice Couve de Murville at first worked for the puppet government in Vichy.
Born in a suburb of Algiers, Jacques was expelled from his school at the age of 12 because of the Vichy government's racial laws.
The day that he and Bella left Marseille for America, the Vichy police deported 1, 200 other Jewish refugees there to forced labour in north Africa.
His role in France's pro-Nazi Vichy government is again being scrutinized.
In 2005, Theriault's auctioned one of the most spectacular, a piece by Gustave Vichy in which a three-foot-tall acrobat grasping two chairs appears to defy gravity.
For the uninitiated, a Vichy shower mandates that you lie on a treatment table while six or seven showerheads direct water at your prone body from above.
"I had to spend all day at customs explaining what a Vichy shower was, " said Jorge Campos, director of Guacalito de la Isla, of the multi-spray spa gadget.
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"My mother wanted to leave, " he later recalled, "but my father paradoxically still had faith in Marshal Petain" -- then the ruler of Vichy France, the part unoccupied by Nazi forces.
But once the Vichy leaders had been executed for treason after the Liberation, a different imperative prevailed: to keep France united, to avoid recriminations and to draw a veil over the past.
The French railways, who are appealing against the June verdict, argue they had no choice during the war but to do as they were ordered by the Vichy government in collaboration with the German occupying army.
Piaf is most identified with the Trauma of the 1940s, the swift defeat in May 1940, the compromise of surrender, the moral accommodation of Nazi-ism, the collaboration, the humiliation of four years of German occupation, the terrible betrayal of Vichy.
Upon taking his position, Root stepped in and altered some of the new design, getting rid of such fixtures as Vichy showers, which can be expensive to operate and difficult to explain to spa novices, and severely limit a room's flexibility.
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Many are hoping that the impending trial of Maurice Papon, accused of ordering the arrest and deportation of 1, 560 Jews, including many children, when he was police supervisor in the Bordeaux area in 1942-44, will turn into a show trial of the whole of the Vichy administration.
The author's account of the farcical events of 1940, when, following the defeat of France, Grynszpan was released from prison only to give himself up again to the collaborationist forces of Vichy, shows us a life that was fundamentally absurd in a way that Albert Camus would surely have recognized.
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