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Why was Jean Chiappe given the job of High Commissioner of the Levant in 1940?
Jean Chiappe was a right-wing civil servant who got fired from his job as police prefect during a scandal in 1934. In 1940, the Vichy French gave him the job of high commissioner to the Levant, which ...