TIL that 80 French parliamentarians voted against the Constitutional Law of 1940, which established the authoritarian rule of Philippe Pétain. They are known today as Les Quatre-Vingts (the Eighty or Vichy 80).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighty_(Vichy_France)

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