State · 1940 – 1944
Vichy France
A state of 1940 – 1944 — 4 years in Europe. It replaced French Third Republic. It was replaced by Provisional Government of the French Republic. The atlas records 40 things within it — wars and battles 29 · unrest and atrocity 1 · people 7 · works and ideas 3. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 4 years
- 1940 – 1944
- Rulers
- 1
- the Head of State of Vichy France
- Most ground
- 11.70 million km²
- in 1944
- Within it
- 40
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- French Third Republic · replaces · 1870 – 1940
After it
- Provisional Government of the French Republic · replaced by · 1944 – 1946
Rulers
The line of Head of State of Vichy France - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philippe Pétain | 1940 – 1944 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1940 – 1944. Only 4 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
9.82 million km² in 1940, 11.70 million km² in 1944. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedLe cartouche de l'État Français · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mliu92 
flag, from 1853Flag of France · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199940 rows · 29 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- The Little Prince · literature · 1943
- Annie Ernaux · writer · 1940 – present
- The Stranger · literature · 1942
- Lascaux · discovery · 1940
- Operation Torch · battle · 1942
- Battle of the Coral Sea · battle · 1942
- Dieppe Raid · battle · 1942
- Alain de Benoist · philosopher · 1943 – present
and 32 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood4 years
stood longer than 12% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held11,704,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 99% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century2.0
had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1930 – 1954, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1944, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q69808 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.