Travail, famille, patrie

Travail, famille, patrie[a] was the tripartite motto of Vichy France during World War II.

[b] The Law of 10 July 1940 gave Marshal Pétain full powers to draw up a constitution before being submitted to the Nation and guaranteeing "the rights of Labour, of the Family and of the Fatherland".

In the Revue des deux Mondes (Two Worlds Magazine) of 15 September 1940, Marshal Pétain wrote this repudiation of the motto of the French Republic.

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité : When our young people […] approach adult life, we shall say to them […] that real liberty cannot be exercised except under the shelter of a guiding authority, which they must respect, which they must obey […].

[2] It has often been written that these three words express the Révolution nationale (RN), the National Revolution undertaken by the Vichy regime.

A 1942 Vichy regime propaganda image, with the motto and Philippe Pétain above a scene of rural and industrial France.
The reverse of the two franc coin of 1943, on which the motto appears.
The new motto was also used in the colonies, such as this Vietnamese-language image from French Indochina . The central Chữ Nôm characters are 忠孝 ( trung hiếu ), "loyalty to the state and filial piety ."