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Pétainist, a. and n.|ˈpeɪtænɪst, ˈpetæn-, ˈpɛtæn-|
Also pétainiste |ˌpetæˈniːst|.
[a. F. pétainiste, f. the name of Henri Philippe Pétain (1856–1951), French military commander and head of the Vichy government between 1940 and 1944, during which time he collaborated with the German occupying forces.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or supportive of Pétain or his policies. Hence transf., inclined to collaborate.
1943J. Flanner in New Yorker 22 May 28/3 Marcel said that his family were bitterly divided; half were de Gaullists like himself and the other half were like the rich, Pétainist avuncular swine. 1966M. R. D. Foot SOE in France vi. 133 Many royalists were..tempted by the prospect of a restoration engineered under Pétainist guidance. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Mar. 270/4 Nice and Marseille..seemed to have remained more unanimously pétainiste than Toulouse, Lyon, Montpellier, [etc.]. 1980E. Bradford Year of Thermopylae 82 It is possible that Delphi was either bribed by Persian gold or it was Pétainist, in the sense of making as reasonable an accommodation as possible with the apparently inevitable victors.
B. n. A supporter of Pétain or his policies. Hence transf., a collaborator or supporter of collaboration.
1945N. Mitford Pursuit of Love xix. 165 The few people she saw never failed..to emphasize that the French ‘one knew’, the families who were ‘bien’, were all behaving very badly, convinced Pétainists. 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris iv. 80 He..went back to his native village in the Ain, where there are plenty of unregenerate Pétainists to this day, quite solid with the bishop and the anti-Jewish provincial administration. 1959Encounter July 67/1 Nobody will admire Madame de Staël who is a Pétainist. Her greatness lies in her services to French liberalism, and there are those who think little enough of that. 1978T. Allbeury Lantern Network iii. 48 Two senior policemen are strong Pétainists. There are others whom I would not trust. |