sentences:  Vast crowds cheered him in front of the Hôtel de Ville and in the streets.Following the liberation of France, on 7 September 1944 Pétain and other members of the French cabinet at Vichy were relocated by the Germans to the Sigmaringen enclave in Germany, where they became a government-in-exile until April 1945.Pétain, however, having been forced to leave France, refused to participate in this government and Fernand de Brinon now headed the "government commission".