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6 Larkin, p. 71.
7 Pierre Auguste Galien (1898–1978) lived at 26, rue du Château, Neuilly. Super
Gom was at 110, rue du Landy at la plaine St-Denis. Pierre Galien, in the histories
of Vichy, is often called Joseph, and his name is often spelled as Gallien.
Vague as such histories are about Darquier, they are vaguer still about his
germanophile deputy. At the Liberation he was arrested on 1 September 1944,
then moved from jail to hospital prison in December on the assumption that
he had a brain tumour; but this may have been no more than a rumour based
on the testimony of Galien’s personal doctor, Maurice Tussau, who said of
him, ‘From a mental point of view, he is a sick man.’ Time was kind to Galien,
as it was to so many of Darquier’s war cronies. He was released on parole in
April 1945 and did not attend his trial in July 1949. He died in his bed in a
nursing home in Lyon in March 1978.
8 Some Germans certainly thought Galien was the ‘principal financier’ of La
France enchaînée.
9 APP GA R4: draft of 14 April 1938 and later version of 30 May 1938:
10 APP GA D9, 48 5830, report of 14 December 1938.
11 Action française reported Louis’ outburst in the council chamber the next day,
16 November 1938. The BMO censored his comment to M. Hirschovitz; Action
française did not.
12 Police reports: APPGA/D9 dossier Darquier. The first report dated 6 June
1938, is almost solely concerned with Louis Darquier; the second, more detailed
report, ‘La Propagande anti-juive’ is July 1939 AP dossier 79/501/882‒B and
is reprinted in toto in Kingston, p. 7.
13 Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979). Prolific and much-quoted French writer.
Doctors were omnipresent. La France enchaînée ran a medical column written by
Dr Fernand Querrioux, a good friend of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the most
envenomed adversary of Jewish doctors and their ‘invasion’ of the medical pro -
fession, while Dr Georges Rémondy, a nose specialist, became the Union’s
treasurer and wrote a ‘Doctor’s Corner’ column for the newspaper, producing
an ‘harmonious’ anti-Semitism attuned to the French spirit, not ‘racism in the
vulgar sense of Hitlerian doctrine’. The rest of his news team were Pierre Gérard,
joined by other men of affairs and a token representative of the working class,
and by anti-Semitic writers old – Urbain Gohier, Jean Drault, the cartoonist Ralph
Soupault – and new – a recent anti-Semitic notable, Laurent Viguier, and Léon
de Poncins, whose talents and insights closely echoed those of Princess Karadja.
14 Letter of Montandon to Professor Hans F.K. Günther, 23 October 1938. CDJC
XCV-31 (Billig, p.109).
15 Georges Francoul, a lawyer, was the new vice-president of the Union. Louis
put him to immediate use as his defence counsel and as the flagellator of Jewish
lawyers in La France enchaînée. The anti-Masonic journalist Philippe Poirson
remained as his secretary-general.