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1944, exhorting Frenchmen to volunteer for work in Germany. In 1943 he
joined Darnand’s Milice. He was Minister of Information and Propaganda
from January 1944 until his assassination on 28 June 1944. His state funeral,
held on 30 June at Notre Dame, was attended by cardinals, seven weeks
before the Liberation of Paris and the mass at Notre Dame which celebrated
it.
21 Jean Chiappe (1878–1940): In 1935, the year of Darquier’s election, Chiappe
became president of the Paris City Council, in 1936 a deputy. Pétain designated
him High Commissioner for the Levant in 1940 but he was killed in an
aeroplane, brought down, it is said, by a British plane. His brother Angelo
Chiappe (1889–1945), a préfet and member of the Milice, was sentenced to
death and executed in January 1945.
22 Action française, 6 February 1934, quoted by Werth, p. 144.
23 Those involved in the rioting included Coty’s Solidarité Française, Taittinger’s
Jeunesses Patriotes, Maurras’ Action Française and its Camelots, and some
elements of the French left.
24 It seems that la Roque was paid by the government of the time not to take
direct action. This accusation came from la Roque’s former deputy Pozzo di
Borgo, a typical dénouement in the relationships of these league leaders. André
Tardieu (1876 – 1945), former premier, later gave evidence that he had often
received la Roque in his apartment in Paris and given him money from secret
funds.
25 Weber (p. 336) says Darquier marched with Jeunesses Patriotes from the town
hall to join Action Française on the Concorde. If that is the case, then he was
one of fifty men wounded at the Pont de Solférino. APP GA D9: Dossier
Darquier, 25 April 1935: ‘Ligueur d’Action Française, il a été blessé le 6 février d’une
balle dans la cuisse.’ Others, including Louis himself, all say he was on the
Concorde with Action Française.
26 All Louis’ words are from: Louis to René, 1934, probably end of February.
27 Doumergue’s government brought in an amendment to French naturalisation
laws: recent citizens had to wait ten years before they were permitted
to practise law or to hold public office. In 1935 this was extended to the medical
profession, and led on to Vichy’s laws.
28 All Louis words are from: Louis to René, 29 March 1934.
29 Louis to René, 3 June 1934.
30 Marshal Louis-Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934): Marshal of France, renowned
military leader, and administrator of Morocco from 1912.
31 Louis to René, 3 June 1934.
32 Janot Darquier to René, undated 1934.
33 Louis to René, 8 August 1934.