Talk:Pierre de Chambrun

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The statement that "he was the only senator among the 80 parliamentarians who voted against the grant of special powers to Philippe Pétain and the creation of the Vichy régime." conflicts with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vichy_80 which lists several senators among that number. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.241.79.10 (talk) 11:33, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Someone has conflated the two separate legislative acts of 9–10 June 1940. On 9 June, the two houses of the French parliament voted to abolish the constitution of 1875; Chambrun was indeed the only senator to vote against that. (Three deputies voted against it in the lower house vote.) The following day, the members of both houses met as a joint assembly (I think they called themselves the National Assembly) and voted to give dictatorial powers to Petain; the Vichy Eighty, of whom Chambrun was again one, are the eighty members of the assembly who voted no on 10 June. I've corrected the article and provided a source, though since my copy of Americans in Paris is the e-dition, I can't cite a page number. Binabik80 (talk) 16:55, 14 October 2021 (UTC)