La haute magistrature sous Vichy

The high bench under Vichy, Alain Bancaud. Studying the judiciary under the Vichy regime makes it possible to understand its judicial policy, with inherited characteristics in its professional organization as well as innovations linked to the regime's ideology and to the German occupation. Judicial appointments and the judges' position with respect to the executive were complex and contradictory, combining dependence and distance vis-à-vis current events. The judiciary knows how to adapt to political events and lessen novelty so as to make it part of its own continuity. That is what judges call judicial independence from politics.Bancaud Alain. La haute magistrature sous Vichy. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°49, janvier-mars 1996. pp. 45-62