La politique des distinctions honorifiques civiles du régime de Vichy (1940-1944)

From the summer of 1940, the question of the official civil decorations for which the French Republic has created a system was debated. Was Vichy going to use these marks of honour in the name of its new ideology ? This is the question which this essay, situated between phaleristics, political history, and social history, seeks to answer by analysing national sources.