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A monument to Dupuy's actions at Fort
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regime that Dupuy fought against during the war, Dupuy retained respect for his former commander. He campaigned for the rehabilitation of Pétain during the 1960s and wrote that it was his "most ardent desire is to accompany the
Marshal's ashes for reburial at
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