VIF 211
Childrens book Carrieres Coloniales, by the Secretariat D’Etat a la Marine et Aux Colonies. Published in Vichy in 1943. 47 pages. It is intended to encourage children to want to study in order to work in colonial administration. At the back there is a 16 page document translated as nomenclature of university degrees, special school diplomas and lists of additional postal courses for women to access.
Price: $300.00
VIF 210
Almanach du Croise 1941. By the Apostolat de la Priere in Toulouse. Full of childrens games and stories. Rare, especially in this condition.
Price: $290.00
VIF 209
Ma Belle Fance !!!. Text et Illustrations: D’Aude Roche. 24 page childrens book. Very patriotic, honoring Marshall Petain.
Price: $300.00
VIF 208
French children’s ABC teaching aid produced shortly after the fall of France. Heavily anti-English and anti-semitic. Missing letters E to S, unfortunately. Very rare.
Price: $150.00
VIF 207
Small archive of Vichy propaganda press photos. Shows Petain at Notre Dame in Paris following an Allied air raid; Petain in Auvergne celebrating the anniversary of the Legion; Secretary of State for Supply attempting to calm the public about the supply problem; Petain arriving at a sports stadium; Mr. Duranne, secretary of the Friends of the Marshall, speaking; public protest over English aggression; Petain at Metz on December 6-8, 1918; Petain in Southern France with rare shot of Renee Bousquet standing behind him; Vichy advertising on the wall of a hotel. All but one of nine photos captioned. B
Price: $600.00
Note from Wikipedia: 
VIF 207René Bousquet (11 May 1909 – 8 June 1993) was a high-ranking French political appointee who served as secretary general to the Vichy French police from May 1942 to 31 December 1943. For personal heroism, he had become a protégé of prominent officials before the war and had risen rapidly in the government. In 1949, he was automatically convicted as a Vichy official and sentenced to five years of indignité nationale, but his sentence was reduced due to beliefs that he also aided the French Resistance and attempted to preserve some autonomy for French police during the German occupation. Excluded from the government, he went into business. After receiving amnesty in 1959, Bousquet became active again in politics by supporting left-wing politicians through the 1970s and becoming a regular visitor in the 1980s of François Mitterrand after his election as president. In 1989, after years of increasing accusations about his activities during the war, Bousquet was accused by three groups of crimes against humanity. He was ultimately indicted by the French Ministry of Justice in 1991 for his decisions during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, which led to Jewish children being deported and killed in German extermination camps in Eastern Europe. Bousquet was assassinated in 1993 by Christian Didier shortly before his trial was to begin.
VIF 206
Two anti-Hitler French postcards. B
Price: $140.00
VIF 205
Vichy issued ink blotter warning the French Militia of the dangers of communism. B
Price: $200.00
VIF 203
Trois Couleurs un Drapeau. Published in Paris in 1942. It shows the evolution of the French flag from Charlemagene to Vichy. Only 150 copies pressed. Only copies 2-16 are hand painted. This is #14 and rare as such. B
Price: $700.00
VIF 202
Promotional book of photo images of Petain from 1939-1941. By the Bureau du Chef de l’Etat. B
Price: $250.00
VIF 201
La Vie en Fleur. French propaganda about the importance of family. This was mailed out to doctors across France. This is copy #1836, sent to Doctor P. Gillon. Also in the package was a confidential dosier attacking abortion. Stamped confidential. Rare. B
Price: $700.00
VIF 200
Chocolate box decorated with Vichy propaganda. Rare. B
Price: $300.00
VIF 198
Un Siecle de Perfidies (A Century of Perfidy). Published in 1936, it is a collection of anti-British satirical cartoons over the previous 70 years. 31 pages. B
Price: $250.00
VIF 196
Dan L’honneur et la Dignite, Souvenirs de Vichy, by J. Sennep. B AH
Price: $300.00
VIF 191
Le Marechal. A poem by Alphonse Mortier. B
Price: $90.00
VIF 186
La France ne sera pas un pays d’Esclaves, by Jacques Doriot. 158 pages. Back cover repaired. AH
Price: $120.00
VIF 179
Four issues of La Legion…..the propaganda communication of the Vichy government. B ah
Price: $400.00
VIF 178
5 issues of Voyage Officiel du Marchal. He visits Limousin, Provence, Lyon, Lourdes, Savoie. Very rare. B
Price: $1000.00
VIF 1764 issues of Le Flambeau. An organ of the “Croix de Feu”, it was published between 1929 and 1942. B
Price: $800.00
Note (from Wikipedia): The Croix-de-Feu (Cross of Fire) was a nationalist French league of the Interwar period, led by Colonel François de la Rocque (1885–1946). After it was dissolved, as were all other leagues during the Popular Front period (1936–38), La Rocque established the Parti social français (PSF) to replace it. It was primarily a group of veterans of the First World War, those who had been awarded the Croix de guerre 1914-1918. The group was founded on 26 November 1927 by Maurice d'Hartoy, who led it until 1929. The honorary presidency was awarded to writer Jacques Péricard. Also in 1929, the movement acquired its own newspaper, Le Flambeau. At its creation, the movement was subsidized by the wealthy perfumer François Coty, and was hosted in the building of Le Figaro. It benefited from the Catholic Church's 1926 proscription of the Action Française, which prohibited Catholics from supporting the latter. Many conservative Catholics became members of the Croix-de-feu instead, including Jean Mermoz and the young François Mitterrand.
Unlike the Unions latines, which had promoted algérianité (Algerianness) and gained the support of French settlers, the CF adopted a new approach. European settlers in Algeria tended to support authoritarian and imperialist government over French republicanism. They were anti-Semitic and xenophobic. Believing that Algerian Europeans were a new race, they saw themselves as "youthful, virile and brutal" and Metropolitan France as "degenerate, effeminate and weak". They often resorted to the use of the force against Muslim and Jewish Algerians.
The Croix-de-feu had a massive propaganda campaign that won thousands of members in Constantine and Algiers. It proposed an alliance with local Muslims and attacked the left. Scholars see that as a tactic to funnel revolutionary and separatist frustrations caused by economic disparity between European settlers and the local Algerian people. It used different propaganda in Oran, more similar to Jules Molle and the Unions latines, because Oran had fewer Muslims and was more anti-Semitic.
Under Lieutenant-Colonel François de La Rocque, who took over in 1930, the Croix-de-Feu took its independence from François Coty and left the building of Le Figaro for rue de Milan. It organised popular demonstrations in reaction to the Stavisky Affair in the hope of overthrowing the Second Cartel des gauches, a left-wing coalition government. La Rocque quickly became a hero of the far right, which opposed the influences of socialism and "hidden Communism" but was skeptical about becoming counterrevolutionary.
Under la Rocque, the movement advocated a military effort against the "German danger" and supported corporatism and an alliance between capital and labour. It enlarged its base by creating a number of secondary associations, thus including non-veterans in its ranks. To counter the monarchist Action française and its slogan Politique d'abord! "Politics First!"), de la Rocque invented the motto Social d'abord! ("Social First!"). In his book, Le Service Public ("Public Service)", which was published in November 1934, he argued in favour of a reform of parliamentary procedures; cooperation between industries according to their branches of activities; a minimum wage and paid holidays; women's suffrage (also upheld by the monarchist Action française, which considered that women, often devout, would be more favorable to their conservative thesis) etc.
The Croix de Feu was one of the right-wing groups that pushed anti-Semitic politics in 1935. Along with Volontaires Nationaux and others, the Croix de Feu used the political developments in Metropolitan France like the election of Léon Blum, a Jewish Prime Minister, and the Popular Front to inflame anti-Semitic sentiment in the colony. The 1936 elections saw the victory of anti-Semitic municipal governments, boycotts against Jewish business (heavily promoted by the Radical Party newspaper Le Republicain de Constantine) and physical violence and attacks against Jews. The Croix de Feu acted in concert with other anti-Semitic parties, including the Rassemblement National d'Action Sociale led by Abbé Lambert, Action française and Parti Populaire français. Membership in Croix de Feu grew from 2500 in 1933, to 8440 in 1935 and 15000 in 1936. In November 1937, the number of 700,000 members was mentioned in a German journal.
VIF 175
Marechal Nous Voila!!! Texte et Illustrations: D’Aude Roche. Vichy childrens book, 24 pages.
Price: $250.00
VIF 173
1943 Vichy calendar. Complete and rare as such.
Price: $200.00