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The French State From the Third Republic to the Fifth A
The elite continuity point you made in pass ing is crucial, because it's worth remembering that even the communists only turn on vichi when stalin turns on hitler. So for a significant part of the occupation, you have people like satren de bauvoir who would spend their entire life writing s on how to be a proper resistance. The quasi totality of the kind of tichnocratic backbone that would go on to rule the country after the war has some ties to vichi, more or less explicitly.