Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Dec 4, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 672 pages
Bad Faith tells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs” in France’s Vichy government.Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish property, which he used for his own gain. Carmen Callil’s riveting and sometimes darkly comic narrative reveals Darquier as a self-obsessed fantasist who found his metier in propagating hatred—a career he denied to his dying day—and traces the heartrending consequences for his daughter Anne of her poisoned family legacy. A brilliant meld of epic sweep and psychological insight, Bad Faith is a startling history of our times.
 

Contents

Soldiers Heart
3
Scandal and Caprice
4
Baby
5
Shreds and Patches
6
Tasmania
22
COCK BULL
47
958
49
Le Pilerin 3 January 1898
58
Certificat de Now Appartenance à la Race Juive
258
The Rat Pit
262
Death
277
Having Fun
300
Loot
321
PART V
348
The Family
371
The Cricket Team
394

The Street
95
Maurras speech to the medical fraternity of Action Française March 1933
97
Fame
107
Letter from Louis to René mid1930s
119
Action française 22 January 1936
128
Pot of Gold
135
On the Rampage
152
lAntijuif no 3 26 June 1937
155
La France enchaînée 15 June 1939
179
Work Family Fatherland
193
Principal authorities dealing with Jews 194044
209
Tormenting Men
217
Jewish carte didentité
218
Rats
240
Dinosaurs
416
Postscript
435
The Snows of Sigmaringen by Louis Aragon
457
Acknowledgements
467
Notes
473
11
542
PART III
560
Bibliography and Sources 167
567
Index
589
112
591
Letter from Louis Darquier to Rothke 11 June 1943
592
135
593
170
594
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About the author (2007)

Carmen Callil was born in Australia and moved to England, where she began working in the publishing industry. In 1972 she founded Virago, publishing such authors as A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, and Toni Morrison. She was subsequently Managing and Publishing Director of Chatto & Windus, publisher-atlarge for Random House UK, and Director of Channel 4 Television. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and co-author of The Modern Library.

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