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19 “cyclothymic” Dr. Achille Delmas, August 15, 1936, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

20 “to justify his past acts” Ibid.

21 “attempting a variety of simultaneous tasks” Ibid.

22 “calm, lucid, and non-delirious” Dr. Rogues de Fursac, Medical Report, August 18, 1936, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

23 “a state of mental equilibrium” Dr. Achille Delmas, August 25, 1936, Extrait du registre du contrôle de psychiatrie de la Vo Région , APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

24 “I am absolutely sane in mind” Marcel Petiot to the procureur de la république, August 18, 1936, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

25 “amoral and unbalanced” … “should not weigh excessively” Rapport Medico-Legal , December 19, 1936, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

CHAPTER 24. BEATING CHANCE?

1 “Cigarette Butt” Petiot signed a poem with this nickname. APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII.

2 “It would be marvelous” Ibid.

3 “If Petiot is condemned” René Nézondet, Petiot “le Possédé” (Paris: Express, 1950), 123–124.

4 “very cultivated, very intelligent” France-Soir , March 16, 1946.

5 “I never saw” Nézondet, Petiot “le Possédé,” 128.

6 “meatballs” … “virgin forest” Marcel Petiot, Le Hasard vaincu (Paris: Roger Amiard, 1946), 14, 341, 1, 5–6.

7 “Petiot Exposition” Jacques Delarue and Anne Manson, “L’affaire Landru de la Libération: Docteur Petiot 21, Rue Lesueur ,” in Gilbert Guilleminault et al., eds., Les lendemains qui ne chantaient pas (Paris: Denoël, 1962), 54.

8 “very esteemed” Jean Duchesne, Audition , November 27, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

9 “he had belonged to a group” Ibid.

10 “participated in the murder” Jean Duchesne, Audition , November 28, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

11 the owner of the five-room apartment Yvonne Salvage, Audition , December 10, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

12 About nine o’clock one evening … “make the cadavers disappear” Georges Redouté, Audition , November 4, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

13 a “Corsican” Ibid. Marguerite Durez, Audition , November 5, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

14 “During the time” … “always alone” Georges Redouté, Audition , November 4, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

15 “a drum with German colors” Perquisition , November 4, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

16 Petiot had called this Georges Redouté, Audition , November 4, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

17 a “game of poker” Ibid.

18 “I was convinced at that moment” … “the war, the Germans” Emilie Bézayrie, Audition , November 6, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

19 “true patriot” … “I did not go to the police” Jacques Perry and Jane Chabert, L’affaire Petiot (Paris: Gallimard, 1957), 113.

20 Petiot, laughing, offered Delarue and Manson, “L’affaire Landru,” 51.

21 Lieutenant Jacques Yonnet Many biographers confuse the surname and the alias. The correct surname is Yonnet.

22 wounded by a German grenade Jacques Yonnet was still feeling the effects June 16, 1944, describing how fragments “roam about in my side, my hip, my neck. They tickle, prick, scratch, throb, and sometimes leave me prostrate with attacks of absolutely unbearable convulsive pain.” Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City , translated by Christine Donougher (London: Dedalus, 2006), 165.

23 the twenty-five-year-old Charbonneaux Hubert Charbonneaux, “Hommage à Jean Charbonneaux (1918–1943),” last updated December 22, 2007, which can be read at the recommended Turma Vengeance website, at chantran.vengeance. free.fr/Doc/Charbonneaux05.pdf

24 inventor of the bath torture Jacques Delarue, Trafics et crimes sous l’occupation (Paris: Fayard, 1968), 45–52.

25 identifying one hundred V-1 George Martelli, The Man Who Saved London: The Story of Michel Hollard (Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961), 8, 154–155, 167.

26 No one in Agir Many other Resistants who would have moved in his circles denied any knowledge as well, including Claire Davinroy, Audition , October 31, 1944; Dr. Vic Dupont, Audition , November 13, 1944; and widows of fallen leaders, such as Gilberte Brossolette, Report, March 21, 1945, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

27 “A guy who did nothing” DGER Report, Conclusions , May 3, 1945, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V and IV.

CHAPTER 25. THE KNELLERS

1 “Shit! I’ll run over there” Hazel Rowley, Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005), 147.

2 “land of freedom and equality” Ibid, 150.

3 “that doctrine which makes” … “Existentialism defines” Annie Cohen-Solal, Sartre: A Life , translated by Anna Cancogni (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987), 249–251.

4 “Too Many Attend Sartre” Ronald Aronson, Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004), 47.

5 “the hairy adolescents” … P.T. Barnum Annie Cohen-Solal, Sartre , 261.

6 what the historian Ronald Aronson Ronald Aronson, Camus & Sartre , 48.

7 A journalist asked Jean-François Dominique, L’affaire Petiot: médecin, marron, gestapiste, guillotiné pour au moins vingt-sept assassinats (Paris: Éditions Ramsay, 1980), 171.

8 “constitutional delinquent” … “completely amoral” John V. Grombach, The Great Liquidator (New York: Zebra Books, 1980), 266–269.

9 “[Petiot’s] hesitations, his contradictions” DGER Report, Conclusions , May 3, 1945, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V and IV.

10 On September 11, 1944 Marthe Wetterwald, Audition , November 20, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

11 He wanted to help Petiot had obtained Wetterwald’s name after trying the same method two days before offering to help in the release of another physican, who, in the middle of his pitch, walked into the room. Marguerite Gérard, Audition , November 20, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

12 He was a leader François Wetterwald, Audition , November 13, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V. See also Wetterwald’s memoir, Vengeance: Histoire d’un corps franc (Paris: Mouvement Vengeance, 1946).

13 12,884 Jewish men, women, and children There were 3,031 men, 5,802 women, and 4,051 children between the ages of two and sixteen. Serge Klarsfeld, Vichy-Auschwitz (Paris: Fayard 1983), 121–122.

14 “I know, this appears suspect” Ernest Jorin, Audition , November 6, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° IV.

15 Roart was struck Report, October 10, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° IV.

16 a woman’s black coat Ibid.