A native of Alès, Gard, Auphan was a student at the École navale; promoted to capitaine de vaisseau in 1936, he had a career in the cabinets of the ministries Georges Leygues and François Pietri.
Upon its publication in French translation in 1973, he became the subject of intense vitriol from French historians and commentators; during a televised debate with Paxton in 1976, the Vichy naval leader Gabriel Auphan called him a liar.
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