I assume that most readers of this blog are well aware that the Vichy regime in France was a puppet government in thrall to Nazi Germany. They did much of the Germans' dirty work for them, including (but not limited to) sending Jews to the death camps.
When the French right won the first rounds of elections last month and the commentators said that if they won the second round, that they would be the first right-wing government in France in decades, few bothered to mention that the last right-wing government in France was the Vichy regime.
So why would someone name a product line after them? It'd be like marketing Quisling Seafood, for example.
(Yeah, I know; speaking of Quislings and back-stabbing turncoats--- J.D. Vance.)
There's been a spa in Vichy since 590 BCE, the waters (as in 'taking the waters') there are famous. Not exactly something you or I (not being glitterati or jet set people) would be big on, but...
ReplyDeleteI know it's a strange name for cosmetics, and it is French!
ReplyDeleteA dear friend who lives in the Loire Valley and visits the US every year brought me a Vichy product, a face cream. It didn't work. I still have the same face! And now I only drink French wine. LOL! No, really. What were they thinking?!!!
1) The Vichy Company was founded in the city of Vichy in 1931, before World War II.
ReplyDelete2) There is a place in Madison WI called Quisling Towers Apartments. It was built in 1937, and named after its investor, Dr. Abraham Quisling. He also established the Quisling Clinic in 1946.
In both cases, it's "We had the name first and we aren't changing it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling_Towers_Apartments
OK, and how many companies use the swastika has a corporate logo?
ReplyDeleteDublin had a Swastika Laundry from 1912 to 1987.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.olddublintown.com/swastika-laundry.html