“Vichy regime can be regarded as "fascist": Well, I think it qualified. No parliament, took power with a Coup but with a legal appearance, creates it own militias, call on old good supposed French Values, hate of the Republic, Catholic and anti-Semitic (the Vichy laws were worst than the German’s one, and Germany didn’t even asked Pétain to issue them), reactionary and like Mussolini, in favour of the corporations.
Allied itself with Germany (the last fighting SS in Berlin were French, Belgium and Dutch, 33 SS Charlemagne for the French…), as Adrian said, one of the shameful moment in the French History. Deportation of the Jews, collaboration with Nazi Germany, torture and killing of the French (and the foreigners) who disagreed, Pétain betrayed his country.
I was near to forget: Pétain was a friend of Franco.