Vichy France

State · 1940–1943 CE · at its largest around 1940 CE

The authoritarian French State headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain, which governed from the spa town of Vichy after the 1940 armistice and collaborated with Nazi Germany. Germany occupied its zone in late 1942, and it collapsed at liberation.

On its lands while it lasted

• Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906 CE – 2001 CE): Poet and co-founder of the Négritude movement who became the first president of Senegal (1960–1980).
• Kwame Nkrumah (1909 CE – 1972 CE): Leader of Ghana's independence movement, its first prime minister and president, and a leading advocate of Pan-Africanism.
• Vichy (c. 1940 CE): Capital of Vichy France (1940–1943).

More on Wikipedia.