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...moment the spotlight shifted from the treason trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Pátain to his wife and the wife of Pierre Laval. In Paris' Cour de Justice, the two women, once among the French elite, now accused of "intelligence with the enemy," answered questions in a preliminary interrogation...
Madame la Maráchale, 67, was dignified in a straw sailor and a high-necked light tailleur. Short, chunky Madame Laval, 57, wore sari-like slacks and a beige coat. Her hair was swathed in a capacious scarf...
...Refused." The witness concluded: the Marshal, and by implication he himself, had played the double game in North Africa. They had secretly ordered help for the Allies, but publicly they had sided with the Axis. And, added Laval, he had refused to help organize a puppet French government in Germany after the liberation of France...
Then Pierre Laval, his testimony finished, shuffled out under heavy guard...
...Laval and Pétain...