On his surrender of France to Germany, le Maréchal, Henri Philippe Pétain, commented, "It is better than nothing." And, as it turned out, a good deal less.

Frustrated by German disregard of a final peace, "le Sauveur de Verdun" shopped France to Britain:

'PETAIN TRIED SURRENDERING TO BRITAIN' CLAIM

LONDON May 25, 2005 (AFP) - A new biography on Marshall [sic] Philippe Petain [Pétain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History] says the head of the World War II French collaborationist government may have tried to surrender to the British in 1943, only to be flatly rejected.

Author and historian Charles Williams says that newly discovered "top secret" documents in the British national archives show that Petain proposed to leave Vichy and sign a peace agreement with the free French government based in Algiers.

Well, that was the last of that and le Maréchal made do with the German final solution [Endlösung].