This book provides the most new synthesis and more serious about Petain. Nourished essential documents, with unreleased she renews to some degree the look on that personality, and force many readers to question whether, or to discover new critical angles. One of the main theses of B. Vergez-Chaignon is that Petain wanted to renew with the Occupation attitude submissive and eager he had with Franco, believing draw calming means. The author shatters myths and errors, wherever they come from. However, we can blame this remarkable biography excessive abstraction by dint of Petain isolate the context and the pressure of events. It takes little account of irrational, affective, working this troubled and complex period (whose popularity Petain is an example). The historian is a "latecomer" said Daniel Halevy: it is easy to rationalize after 70 years the home of the irrationality of the thirties and forties, leaving a key aspect of its object escape to that claims to explain this period. A story of fear from 1939 to 1945 remains to be written.
