"My country has been beaten and they are calling me back to make peace and sign an armistice...This is the work of 30 …"

"The only wealth you possess is your labour... France will become again what she should never have ceased to be—…"

"Le Maréchal-paysan [The Marshal-peasant]."

"[Pétain is France's] noblest and most humane soldier."

"At seven o'clock [on 11 June 1940] we entered into conference. ... I urged the French Government to defend Paris. I e…"

"[On 16 June 1940] Paul Reynaud was quite unable to overcome the unfavourable impression which the proposal of Anglo-F…"

"Pétain has always been an anti-British defeatist, and is now a dotard."

"I am entirely with the Marshall [Pétain], I see him as the Father of the patrie, blessed with a good sense verging on…"

"Remember that France has always had two strings in its bow. In June 1940 it needed the Pétain "string" as much as the…"

"Neither Germany nor Italy have doubts. Our crisis is not a material crisis. We have lost faith in our destiny...We ar…"