This old friend of the family, whom they thought they knew so well... When Paul Pradier dies at the age of 93, the Albert family loses a friend, an adoptive uncle full of joie de vivre and humour. But a phone call from the Dordogne shatters this image: there is talk of a dark past, a conviction, a prison sentence. Frédéric Albert begins to investigate, turning everything he thought he knew about this old man, whom everyone loved, upside down. At the age of 19, during the occupation, the young Paul had entered the service of the German occupiers in Périgueux. With a gun on his belt, he took part in the hunt for resistance fighters, communists and Jews: a collaborator of the worst kind. At the intersection of personal memory and history, Ce bon monsieur Paul traces the fate of an ordinary man who became a cog in the wheel of terror and questions the right to forget or the impossibility of forgiveness.
Author
Albert, Frédéric
Title
Ce bon Monsieur Paul
Details
French text, paperback. 224 pages.
State
new
Subtitle
L'ancien collabo qui trompa tout son monde
Éditions Pierre de Taillac 10 rue du capitaine Hubert de Carpentier 14640 Villers-sur-Mer Frankreich
