Canada between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945

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Label

Canada between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945

Statement of responsibility

Olivier Courteaux

Creator

• Courteaux, Olivier

Author

• Courteaux, Olivier

Subject

• Außenpolitik
• Außenpolitik
• Canada
• Canada -- Foreign relations -- 1914-1945
• Canada -- Foreign relations -- 1918-1945
• Canada -- Foreign relations -- France
• Canada -- Relations extérieures -- 1918-1945
• Canada -- Relations extérieures -- 1918-1945
• Canada -- Relations extérieures -- France
• Canada -- Relations extérieures -- France
• Diplomatic history
• Diplomatic relations
• France
• France -- Foreign relations -- 1940-1945
• 1914-1945
• France -- Relations extérieures -- 1940-1945
• France -- Relations extérieures -- 1940-1945
• France -- Relations extérieures -- Canada
• France -- Relations extérieures -- Canada
• Freies Frankreich
• Freies Frankreich
• Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Histoire diplomatique
• Kanada
• Kanada
• Vichy-Regime
• Vichy-Regime
• Weltkrieg
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history
• France -- Foreign relations -- Canada
• 1918-1945

Language

eng

Summary

The relationship between Canada and France has always been complicated by the Canadian federal government's relations with Quebec. In this first study of Franco-Canadian relations during the Second World War, Olivier Courteaux demonstrates how Canada's wartime foreign policy was shaped by the country's internal divides. As Courteaux shows, Quebec's vocal nationalist minority came to openly support France's fascist Vichy regime and resented Canada's involvement in a 'British' war, while English Canada was largely sympathetic to de Gaulle's Free French movement and accepted its duty to aid embattled Mother Britain. Meanwhile, on the world stage, Canada deftly juggled ties with both French factions to appease Great Britain and the United States before eventually giving full support to the Free French movement

Cataloging source

NLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography