Volume 53, Number 18 · November 16, 2006

The Jew Hater

By Robert O. Paxton
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
by Carmen Callil

Knopf, 607 pp., $30.00

The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation
by Richard Vinen

Yale University Press, 460 pp., $35.00

In August 1978, an enterprising French journalist, Philippe Ganier-Raymond, tracked down a nearly forgotten eighty-one-year-old French exile in Madrid named Louis Darquier de Pellepoix and cajoled him into conversation. Ganier-Raymond had brought along a tape recorder concealed in a fan.



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