Philippe Pétain
French military and political leader (1856–1951)
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French military commander who became a WWI hero, then led Vichy France's collaborationist government during WWII. His reputation collapsed after the war, cementing him as history's cautionary tale of political reinvention gone catastrophically wrong.
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Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain, better known as Marshal Pétain, was a French military officer who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II.
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