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    René Bousquet (French: [ʁəne buskɛ]; 11 May 1909 – 8 June 1993) was a high-ranking French political appointee who served as secretary general to the Vichy...
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  • 2015) came to public attention after 8 June 1993 as the assassin of René Bousquet, a friend of French President François Mitterrand, who had served as...
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  • long lasting friendship with René Bousquet, a general secretary of the Vichy police. De Gaulle said of Mitterrand and Bousquet that "they are ghosts who...
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    Paul Touvier, Maurice Papon, René Bousquet (the head of the French police during the war) and his deputy Jean Leguay. Bousquet and Leguay were both convicted...
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  • playwright Jacques Bousquet (1883-1939) Raymond Henry Bousquet (1905–1935), birth name of Canadian boxer Del Fontaine René Bousquet (1909–1993), French...
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    part of Opération Vent printanier (Operation Spring Wind). Planned by René Bousquet, Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Theodor Dannecker and Helmut Knochen,...
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    German and French officials for prosecution, such as Klaus Barbie, René Bousquet, Jean Leguay, Maurice Papon, and Paul Touvier, who had been implicated...
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    German occupation of France. Assisted by the French police, directed by René Bousquet, the Germans organized a raid to arrest Jews. The police checked the...
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    important collaborators, such as René Bousquet, head of the French police under Vichy, did not go to trial. Bousquet himself would be assassinated in...
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    septembre–décembre 1940. PhD thesis. University of Paris IV, 2004. Labat, René. Le Gabon devant le Gaullisme. Paris: Delmas, 1941. La vérité sur l'affaire...
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    maintained a literary salon frequented by collaborationists Xavier Vallat, René Bousquet, Marquis Fernand de Brinon and Otto Abetz. After the Liberation, they...
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    Head of Government: Fernand de Brinon Secretary General to the Police: René Bousquet Secretary General of the government: Jacques Guérard [fr] Secretary...
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  • the occupying country", in particular the French police, headed by René Bousquet (charged in 1990 with crimes against humanity), which assisted the Nazis...
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  • and children. During Vichy France, Leguay was second-in-command to René Bousquet, the general secretary of the National Police in Paris. Leguay participated...
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  • historical figures including: Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie Junie Astor René Bousquet Alphonse de Châteaubriant Maurice Chevalier Danielle Darrieux Suzy Delair...
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  • du Parc Zone libre Participants Joseph Antignac Jean-Marie Bergeret René Bousquet Louis Bourgain André Broc [fr] Alexis Carrel Jacques Charpentier [fr]...
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  • during the Second World War. Their development was the special task of René Bousquet, Vichy director-general of the French national police. The GMR was conceived...
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    senior positions under the Vichy government—such as Maurice Papon and René Bousquet—escaped consequences by claiming to have worked secretly for the resistance...
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  • du Parc Zone libre Participants Joseph Antignac Jean-Marie Bergeret René Bousquet Louis Bourgain André Broc [fr] Alexis Carrel Jacques Charpentier [fr]...
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    du Parc Zone libre Participants Joseph Antignac Jean-Marie Bergeret René Bousquet Louis Bourgain André Broc [fr] Alexis Carrel Jacques Charpentier [fr]...
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    d'achat in all occupied territories. After the war Jean de Sailly and René Bousquet presented this decision as a victory of the Vichy authorities. This...
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    du Parc Zone libre Participants Joseph Antignac Jean-Marie Bergeret René Bousquet Louis Bourgain André Broc [fr] Alexis Carrel Jacques Charpentier [fr]...
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    du Parc Zone libre Participants Joseph Antignac Jean-Marie Bergeret René Bousquet Louis Bourgain André Broc [fr] Alexis Carrel Jacques Charpentier [fr]...
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    Adolphe René Bousquet (14 August 1899 – 17 March 1972) was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer...
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  • (1805–1864), Swiss writer, poet and traveller Christian Didier, assassin of René Bousquet Clint Didier (born 1959), American politician and football tight end...
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    he was sure who the winner would be. They noted his friendship with René Bousquet and the wreaths he was said to have placed on Pétain's tomb in later...
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  • Joë Bousquet (French: [buskɛ]; 19 March 1897 – 28 September 1950) was a French poet. Bousquet was born in Narbonne. Wounded on 27 May 1918 at Vailly near...
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    du Parc Zone libre Participants Joseph Antignac Jean-Marie Bergeret René Bousquet Louis Bourgain André Broc [fr] Alexis Carrel Jacques Charpentier [fr]...
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    Their only child, a daughter named Josée, was born in 1911. Josée married René de Chambrun, whose uncle, Nicholas Longworth III, married Alice Roosevelt...
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    as the Countesses of the Gestapo. Lafont was on familiar terms with René Bousquet and Pierre Laval, but his relationships with other collaborators like...
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