Petain's Ghost: Fascism in Postwar France?

How did this all happen in For All Time again.

If I remember correctly, Francois Darlan flees Vincy France early on in the occupation and sets up a Government-in-Exile in North Africa. With the delayed invasion of France in FaT he is able to project himself as a liberator as opposed to the arch-Fascist he is remembered as in OTL. Via a Cultural Revolution he purges most opposition to him, and so becomes the first in the line of dictators who end up ruling a Balkanised France when Bokassa takes over.
 
If I remember correctly, Francois Darlan flees Vincy France early on in the occupation and sets up a Government-in-Exile in North Africa. With the delayed invasion of France in FaT he is able to project himself as a liberator as opposed to the arch-Fascist he is remembered as in OTL. Via a Cultural Revolution he purges most opposition to him, and so becomes the first in the line of dictators who end up ruling a Balkanised France when Bokassa takes over.

Havn't read FaT... but Bokassa? :eek:

Who's the POTUS, G Gordon Liddy?
 
I've really gotta read that timeline... all I remember about US Presidents from where I got to before is that it all goes wrong for Pres. Henry Wallace...

:eek:

...So... it's like A Very Bad Year, but for the second half of the 20th century?

EDIT a lookup and a glance at the last post includes CalGov Charles Manson, POTUS Jim Jones, and CPM Conrad Black. So, uh, yeah. :eek::D
 
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:eek:

...So... it's like A Very Bad Year, but for the second half of the 20th century?

EDIT a lookup and a glance at the last post includes CalGov Charles Manson, POTUS Jim Jones, and CPM Conrad Black. So, uh, yeah. :eek::D

The complete (IIRC) POTUS list from FaT is:

Henry Wallace (Democrat; 1941-1945)
Robert Taft (Republican; 1945-1951) [assassinated by Puerto Rican nationalists]
Tom Dewey Republican; (1951-1953)
Joseph Kennedy, Jr. (Democrat; 1953-1962) [assassinated by Charles Whitman]
Robert LaFollete, Jr. (Democrat; 1962) [commits suicide on national television]
Clark Gable (Democrat; 1962-1965)
Barry Goldwater (Republican; 1965-1969)
Joseph Foss (Republican; 1969-1973)
George McGovern (Democrat; 1973-1977)
Jim Jones (Democrat; 1977-1980) [Disposed of in a military coup after he goes completely bonkers and tries to orchestrate a nuclear war with Andrei Chikatilo's Soviet Union; the last civilian President for some time]
Alexander Haig (Democrat; 1980-1993)
Slade Gorton (Democrat; 1993-2001)
Russ Feingold (Republican; 2001-20?)
~~~~~

I may have messed up some of the dates, and possibly the party affiliation of a couple of the later ones, but that's basically it. :eek:
 
The complete (IIRC) POTUS list from FaT is:

Henry Wallace (Democrat; 1941-1945)
Robert Taft (Republican; 1945-1951) [assassinated by Puerto Rican nationalists]
Tom Dewey Republican; (1951-1953)
Joseph Kennedy, Jr. (Democrat; 1953-1962) [assassinated by Charles Whitman]
Robert LaFollete, Jr. (Democrat; 1962) [commits suicide on national television]
Clark Gable (Democrat; 1962-1965)
Barry Goldwater (Republican; 1965-1969)
Joseph Foss (Republican; 1969-1973)
George McGovern (Democrat; 1973-1977)
Jim Jones (Democrat; 1977-1980) [Disposed of in a military coup after he goes completely bonkers and tries to orchestrate a nuclear war with Andrei Chikatilo's Soviet Union; the last civilian President for some time]
Alexander Haig (Democrat; 1980-1993)
Slade Gorton (Democrat; 1993-2001)
Russ Feingold (Republican; 2001-20?)
~~~~~

I may have messed up some of the dates, and possibly the party affiliation of a couple of the later ones, but that's basically it. :eek:

:eek:

...OK, that is just like A Very Bad Year. You've got to... love?... a TL where you're cheering Haig's military coup as the only good way forward...
 
You can read my update to the timeline if you want (link in my tag), but the next Presidents are;

L. Neil Smith (Republican 2005-09)
Tray Parker (Republican 2009-?)

Bokassa becomes Emperor of the French before setting up "prisons" in deepest West Africa, to avail the food shortages in the Third Empire, shipments of "equitorial pork" start arriving at around the same time.
 
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You can read my update to the timeline if you want (link in my tag), but the next Presidents are;

L. Neil Smith (Republican 2005-09)
Tray Parker (Republican 2009-?)

Bokassa becomes Emperor of the French before setting up "prisons" in deepest West Africa, to avail the food shortages in the Third Empire, shipments of "equitorial pork" start arriving at around the same time.

:eek:

Wow, that's... hilarious, in a horrible horrible way. :D
 
Speaking of which, where can I read the post-70s part of the TL?

The "Most Morbid Alternate History" thread has links that will take you to the last few updates (including Jim Jones getting disposed of), as well as a final "Where are they now?" segment that takes place in FaT's 2002.
 
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