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In July 1945 Phillipe Pétain, leader of the Vichy regime, was put on trial for collaboration with Nazi Germany. This lecture will use the trial as a way of exploring one of the darkest and most divisive periods in French history whose shadow still hangs over France today.
Julian Jackson is Emeritus Professor of French History, Queen Mary, University of London. His monumental biography of Charles de Gaulle won numerous prizes and has been translated into many languages. His recent work France on Trial: the Case of Marshal Pétain won the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-fiction. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.