Word: lacau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other extreme rightists were arrested, among them Major Georges Loustaneau-Lacau, a former Pétain aide who turned up at Pétain's treason trial to defend the Marshal-even though Pétain had not lifted a finger when the Nazis put Loustaneau-Lacau in a concentration camp. Another of the arrested plotters was General Maurice Guillaudot, who was about to go to a banquet when police came for him. Said he: "I understand what is involved. Just let me go to my banquet." The French police, who pride themselves on being raisonnable...
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