sentences:  With the imminent Fall of France in June 1940 in World War II, Pétain was appointed President of the Ministerial Council by President Lebrun at Bordeaux, and the Cabinet resolved to sign an armistice agreement with Germany.The entire government subsequently moved briefly to Clermont-Ferrand, then to the spa town of Vichy in central France.His government voted to transform the discredited French Third Republic into the French State, an authoritarian regime that collaborated with the Axis.