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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: People from Nord, People from Pas-de-Calais, Philippe Petain, Georges Carpentier, Louis Bleriot, Hippolyte Carnot, Simone Simon, Henri Leconte, Maurice Boitel, Louis Malle, Pierre Mauroy, Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples, Bruno Metsu, Robert-Francois Damiens, Isabelle Dinoire, Hercule Corbineau, Maurice Thorez, Antoine Francois Prevost, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Edita Piekha, William of Rubruck, Louis Amadeus Rappe, Joseph Francois Dupleix, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Marcel Alessandri, Benedict Joseph Labre, Rene Goblet, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Micheline Ostermeyer, Raymond Normand, Pierre-Jules Boulanger, Dominique Vandamme, Andre Stil, Paul Hazard, Edouard Depreux, Cedric Berthelin, Guy Drut, Henri Freville, Robert Witchitz, Albert Decourtray, Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Philippe-Francois-Joseph Le Bas, Charles Jonnart, Gustave Choquet, Charles Catteau, Xavier Beauvois, Apo Lazarides, Guillaume-Marie-Joseph Laboure, Alexandre Bachelet, Jean-Marie Leblanc, Auguste Herbin, Lucien Brasseur, Edmond Delphaut, Robert Enrico, Denis Lambin, Charles Delestraint, Augustin Alexandre Darthe, Alexandre Renard, Charles Pacome, Albert Eloy, Jules Auguste Lemire, Roger Degueldre, Valerie Letard, Jules-Louis Breton, Michel Trolle, Jean-Marie Radoux, Paul Baras, Hugh of Saint Omer, Yvonne Furneaux, Eleuthere Mascart, Olivier Lasak, Philippe-Laurent Roland, Henri Joseph Du Laurens, Patrice Kuchna, Stephane Vossart, Louis Ducatel. Excerpt: Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Petain (French pronunciation: 24 April 1856 - 23 July 1951), generally known as Philippe Petain or Marshal Petain (Marechal Petain), was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'Etat Francais), from 1940 to 1944. Petain, who was 84 years old in 1940, ranks as France...