Government of Vichy France

French State
*État français* (French)
French State État français (French)
1940–1944
	Flag Cartouche
	Motto: "Travail, Famille, Patrie"; ("Work, Family, Fatherland")
	Anthem: ; "La Marseillaise" (official); ; "Maréchal, nous voilà !" (unofficial); ("Marshal, here we are!")
	The French State in 1942: Vichy France; German military occupation zone; French protectorates;
	The gradual loss of all Vichy territory to Free France and the Allied powers
Status	State under partial occupation (1940–1942); Fully occupied by Germany (1942–1944); Government-in-exile (1944–1945);
Capital	Vichy (de facto administrative); Paris (constitutional);
Capital-in-exile	Sigmaringen
Common languages	French
Government	Authoritarian dictatorship
Chief of State
• 1940–1944	Philippe Pétain
Chief of the Government
• 1940–1942	Philippe Pétain
• 1942–1944	Pierre Laval
Vice-Presidents of the Council of Ministers
• 1940	Pierre Laval
• 1940–1941	P.É. Flandin
• 1941–1942	François Darlan
Legislature	National Assembly
Historical era	World War II
• Second Compiègne	22 June 1940
• Pétain given full powers	10 July 1940
• Operation Torch	8 November 1942
• Case Anton	11 November 1942
• German retreat	Summer 1944
• Vichy laws repealed	9 August 1944
• Capture of the Sigmaringen enclave	22 April 1945
Currency	French franc
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	French Third; Republic
	[[German military administration in occupied France during World War II\|1940:; German military; administration]]
1942:; German military; administration
Italian military; administration
1944:; French Government; Commission for the Defense; of National Interests
Provisional Government; of the French Republic
	Paris remained the de jure capital of the French State, although the Vichy government never operated from there.; Although the French Republic's institutions were officially maintained, the word "Republic" never occurred in any official document of the Vichy government.;

The Government of Vichy France was the collaborationist ruling regime or government in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War. Of contested legitimacy, it was finally headquartered in the town of Vichy in occupied France, but it initially took shape in Bordeaux under Marshal Philippe Pétain as the successor to the French Third Republic in June 1940. The government remained in Vichy for four years, but was escorted to Germany in September 1944 after the Allied invasion of France. It then operated as a government-in-exile until April 1945, when the Sigmaringen enclave was taken by so-called Free French forces. Pétain was permitted to travel back to France (through Switzerland), by then under control of the technically illegal Provisional French Republic, and subsequently put on trial for treason.