Italian occupation of France

Italian Military Administration in France Amministrazione militare italiana in Francia (Italian) Administration militaire italienne en France (French)
Italian military occupation
1940–1943
Flag of Italy Coat of arms
Capital	Menton
Government
• Type	Military administration
Commander
• 1940	Alfredo Guzzoni
• 1940–1941	Mario Caracciolo di Feroleto
• 1941–1943	Mario Vercellino
Historical era	World War II
• Italian invasion	10 June 1940
• Franco-Italian Armistice	24 June 1940
• Case Anton	11 November 1942
• Italian surrender	8 September 1943
Preceded by Succeeded by 1940: French Third Republic 1942: French State German Military Administration

Italian-occupied France (Italian: Occupazione italiana della Francia meridionale; French: Zone d'occupation italienne en France) was an area of south-eastern France and Monaco occupied by Fascist Italy between 1940 and 1943 in parallel to the German occupation of France. The occupation had two phases, divided by Case Anton in November 1942 in which the Italian zone expanded significantly. Italian forces retreated from France in September 1943 in the aftermath of the fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, and German Wehrmacht forces occupied the abandoned areas until the Liberation (Operation Dragoon, 1944).