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<p>[QUOTE="lettow, post: 1622005, member: 6986"]There were not too separate French governments in Metropolitan France during WWII (unless you count DeGaulle's Free French movement but that was outside the country). There was France. At the beginning of the war, part of France was occupied by Germany and included Paris. The French seat of government was moved from Paris to Vichy as a result of the occupation. The French civil authorities still functioned in occupied France as well as unoccupied France and answered to the government in Vichy even in occupied France. By the end of 1942 all of France was occupied by Germany (and Italy in portions of the south) but the seat of the French government remained in Vichy.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Banque de France continued to issue notes in all of France whether occupied or unoccupied. Pre-war notes of the Banque remained legal tender during the war. All issues of the Banque were legal tender after liberation even those that were only issued during the period the government was in Vichy. In addition to the suplemental franc notes (P-114-120) the Allied armies brought with them pre-war Banque de France notes that were in Allied possession (mostly held in US and UK banks and the Bank of England) prior to the war or seized in the French possessions in North Africa.</p><p><br /></p><p>Petronius makes a distinction between notes issued in occupied France and Vichy France. That distinction did not really exist. The notes are all Banque de France notes that were issued in both occupied and unoccupied France.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lettow, post: 1622005, member: 6986"]There were not too separate French governments in Metropolitan France during WWII (unless you count DeGaulle's Free French movement but that was outside the country). There was France. At the beginning of the war, part of France was occupied by Germany and included Paris. The French seat of government was moved from Paris to Vichy as a result of the occupation. The French civil authorities still functioned in occupied France as well as unoccupied France and answered to the government in Vichy even in occupied France. By the end of 1942 all of France was occupied by Germany (and Italy in portions of the south) but the seat of the French government remained in Vichy. The Banque de France continued to issue notes in all of France whether occupied or unoccupied. Pre-war notes of the Banque remained legal tender during the war. All issues of the Banque were legal tender after liberation even those that were only issued during the period the government was in Vichy. In addition to the suplemental franc notes (P-114-120) the Allied armies brought with them pre-war Banque de France notes that were in Allied possession (mostly held in US and UK banks and the Bank of England) prior to the war or seized in the French possessions in North Africa. Petronius makes a distinction between notes issued in occupied France and Vichy France. That distinction did not really exist. The notes are all Banque de France notes that were issued in both occupied and unoccupied France.[/QUOTE]
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