Carmen Callil - Bad faith: a forgotten history of family and fatherland

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About the Book

Bad Faith tells the story of one of historys most despicable villains and conmen Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government and was responsible for sending thousands of children to the gas chambers. After the war he left France, never to be brought to justice. Early on in his career Louis married the alcoholic Myrtle Jones from Tasmania, equally practised in the arts of fantasy and deception, and together they had a child, Anne whom they abandoned in England. Her tragic story is woven through the narrative.

In Carmen Callils masterful, elegaic and sometimes darkly comic account, Darquiers rise during the years leading up to the Second World War mirrors the rise of French anti-Semitism. Epic, haunting, the product of extraordinary research, this is a study in powerlessness, hatred and the role of remembrance.

List of Illustrations

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. Cahors and region

. Tasmania

. Occupied and Non-Occupied France

. French internment camps

I NTEGRATED I LLUSTRATIONS

. Le Plerin, 3 January 1898

. Letter from Myrtle to Ren, 25 March 1933

. Maurras speech to the medical fraternity of Action Franaise, March 1933.

. Letter from Louis to Ren, mid-1930s

. Action franaise, 22 January 1936

. Poster, Comit National de Vigilance de la Jeunesse, March 1936

. lAntijuif no. 3, 26 June 1937

. La France enchane, 15 June 1939

. La France enchane, 115 April 1939

. Principal authorities dealing with Jews, 194044

. Jewish carte didentit

. Who was and who was not Jewish in the Vichy State

. Certificat de Non-Appartenance la Race Juive

. Australia in Danger, lIllustration, 14 February 1942

. Vichys Commission for Jewish Affairs

. Letter from Louis Darquier to Rthke, 11 June 1943

. Anne Darquiers record at Chipping Norton School

I LLUSTRATIONS IN P LATES

. The Darquier family in Cahors, c. 19067 (courtesy of Paulette Aupoix).

. Postcard of the sons of the Mayor of Cahors, 1907 ( Le Lot 19001902 Memoir dhier De Bou).

. Edouard Drumont, 1901 ( Collection Roger-Viollet).

. Charles Maurras and Lon Daudet ( Collection Roger-Viollet).

. The Marquis de Mors, 1896 ( Collection Roger-Viollet).

. Anatole de Monzie, c. 1920.

. Henry de Jouvenal, with his wife Colette and their daughter, c. 1920 ( Collection Roger-Viollet).

. Louis Louis-Dreyfus, 1938 ( Archives du CDJC Mmorial de la Shoah).

. The Jones family, c. 1911 ( Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston).

. Australia as Terre Napolon, 1811.

. Cahors, Boulevard Gambetta, early twentieth century.

. Launceston, Brisbane Street, early twentieth century (from Launceston M. Simco and P. Jermy, 1997)

. Jean, Pierre and Louis Darquier, c. 1915 (courtesy of Yvonne Lacaze).

. An unidentified soldier from the same battalion as William Robert Jones ( Australian War Memorial).

. Statement of a witness at the Court of Inquiry into the death of William Robert Jones ( National Archives of Australia).

. Charles Workman, with his son Roy, c. 1905 ( V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum).

. Charles Workman as Ben Hashbaz in Gilbert and Sullivans The Grand Duke, 1896 ( V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum).

. Louis and Myrtle, court case 32 at Marylebone Magistrates Court, 1930 ( The City of London, London Metropolitan Archives).

. Anne, c. 1933 (courtesy of Alistair Rapley).

. Anne with May Brice, c. 1936 (courtesy of Alistair Rapley).

. Louis and Myrtle, London, 1931 (from lExpress, 1420 February 1972).

. The riots of 6 February 1934 ( Collection Roger-Viollet).

. The removal of the wounded from Place de la Concorde (from lIllustration, 10 February 1934).

. The funeral of Lucien Garniel ( Collection Roger-Viollet).

. Colonel Franois de la Roque, 1935 ( Gaston Paris/Roger-Viollet).

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. Franois Coty ( Harlingue/Roger-Viollet).

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. Pierre Taittinger, 1942 ( Archives du CDJC Mmorial de la Shoah).

. Pierre Taittingers league, Jeunesses Patriotes, 1928 ( Harlingue/Roger-Viollet).

. Charles Trochu, 194143 ( Centre dEtudes et de Documentation Guerre et Socits contemporaines).

. Louis campaign leaflet for his 1935 election to the Paris City Council ( Archives Municipal de Paris.)

. One of the covers of The Protocols of the Elders of Sion, c. 1934 (from Warrant for Genocide by Norman Cohn).

. Louis Darquier in court, July 1939 (from La France enchane, 1531 July 1939).

. Jos Felix de Lequerica.

. Louis Aragon, c. 1936 ( LAPI/Roger-Viollet).

. Lon Blum, c. 1936 ( Collection Roger-Viollet).

. douard Daladier, February 1934 (from front cover of lIllustration, 3 February 1934).

. Bernard Lecache, c. 1930 ( Martinie/Roger-Viollet).

/ Keystone Pressendienst), Henry Charbonneau (from Dictionnaire comment de la Collaboration franaise by Philippe Randa), Henry Coston ( Archives du CDJC Mmorial de la Shoah), Pierre-Antoine Cousteau (from Dictionnaire comment de la Collaboration franaise), Pierre Gaxotte ( Albin-Guillot/ Roger-Viollet), Henri Massis ( Martinie/ Roger-Viollet), Thierry Maulnier ( Martinie/ Roger-Viollet), Bernard Fy ( LAPI/ Roger-Viollet).

. Joseph Darnand ( Harlingue/ Roger-Viollet), Philip Henriot ( Archives du CDJC Mmorial de la Shoah), Paul Szille (from lAntismitisme du Plume 1940-44 ed. Pierre-Andr Taguieff), Georges Montandon ( Archives du CDJC Mmorial de la Shoah ).

. SS Hauptsturmfhrer Dannecker ( Archives du CDJC Mmorial de la Shoah).

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. Franco and Ptain, Montpelier, 1941 ( LAPI/ Roger-Viollet).

. General Maxime Weygand, Paul Baudouin, Paul Reynaud and Marshal Ptain, May/June 1940 ( Sigma, London).

. Cardinal Emmanuel Clestin Suhard, Cardinal Pierre-Marie Gerlier, with Marshal Ptain and Pierre Laval, 1942 ( LAPI/ Roger-Viollet).

. The 2me Rgiment dInfanterie Coloniale marches past Marshal Ptain, Admiral Darlan, Pierre Laval and Louis Darquier, 1942 ( Mdiathque Municipale Valry Larbaud/ Ville de Vichy).

. The men of the second Vichy government, 1940 ( Getty Images/Hulton Archive).

. General Charles de Gaulle 1940 ( AFP/Getty Images).

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. Lon Degrelle with Pope John Paul II, 11 December 1991.

. The Mtro advertises Louis lInstitut dEtude des Questions Juives, c. 194243 ( Klarsfeld Collection).

. Louis with Reinhard Heydrich and Helmut Knochen, 1942 ( Klarsfeld Collection).

. Louis Darquier on his appointment as Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, 1942 ( Collection Roger-Viollet).

. Xavier Vallat, 1941 ( Archives du CDJC Mmorial de la Shoah).

. Joseph Antignac ( Klarsfeld Collection).

. Monseigneur Mayol de Lup, 1944 ( LAPI/ Roger-Viollet).

. Ren Bousquet with Karl-Albrecht Oberg, SS chief Helmut Knochen and Herbert-Martin Hagen ( Klarsfeld Collection).

. Franois Mitterrand, dining with Ren Bousquet in 1974 ( M. Bidermanas/ ANA).

. The Schloss Collection ( A. Vernay).

. Nazi and French services oversee Jewish arrests ( Klarsfeld Collection).