Word: bousquets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sagging franc, he abruptly changed course and put the country on a solidly capitalistic course. For that, critics called him a cynical, power-thirsty, amoral opportunist. Mitterand's reputation was more severely damaged, however, by revelations that he continued a relationship with former Vichy police chief Rene Bousquet, a Nazi sympathizer, long after Bousquet had been charged with crimes against humanity for his actions in deporting French Jews during World War II. But Sancton concludes that "Mitterand deserves credit for putting France on an unambiguously pro-European integration course. In addition, he was a staunch NATO ally during the Cold...
...France, there was yet another reminder that many French citizens collaborated enthusiastically with their Nazi invaders during World War II. Christian Didier, a sometime author who was born during the war, pumped four bullets into Rene Bousquet, a man he described as a "piece of garbage," then summoned TV reporters to explain the deed. Bousquet, 84, a successful former banker, had served as a high-ranking police official in the Nazi-friendly Vichy government and had been accused of deporting thousands of Jewish children to German concentration camps...