Word: procureur
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Died. Constant Victor André Mornet, 85, Procureur Général of France, prosecutor in the trials of Dutch dancing-girl-turned-spy Mata Hari (1917), Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval (1945); in Nohant-Vic, France. Called by his government to prosecute Pétain, Mornet summed up in a stormy five-hour speech, concluded: "I would not be doing my duty if I did not insist on the capital penalty...
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