David King - Death in the City of Light - The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

35 Lafont had just received Philippe Aziz, Tu Trahiras sans vergogne: Histoire de deux ‘collabos’ Bonny et Lafont (Paris: Fayard, 1970), 49–53.

36 Oral testimony Henry Sergg, Paris Gestapo (Paris: Grancher, 1989), 80–82. Petiot also admitted that some members of the French Gestapo had in fact been inadvertently led back to rue Le Sueur in his Audition , November 5, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII.

37 It was indeed this time APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII contains many reports of the findings.

38 “Dr. P” … “knows everything” Dominique, L’affaire Petiot , 118. Petiot hints that he knew many unknown things about Lafont’s gang on rue Lauriston in Audition par Section Spéciale , November 10, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

EPILOGUE

1 distance-operated syringe René Nézondet, Petiot “le Possédé” (Paris: Express, 1950), 76–78.

2 “I do not have to know” … “stinking atmosphere” Albert Massui, Le cas du Dr Petiot (Brussels: E.D.C., 1944), 66–76.

3 “a load of crap” Henry Sergg, Paris Gestapo (Paris: Grancher, 1989), 88.

4 Raphaël’s testimony Raphaël K escaped Petiot, he said, thanks to some extraordinary good fortune. The door to the triangular room had somehow not latched shut. He managed to wiggle out, exit through the narrow corridor, and after coming out of a window into the courtyard, reach the street. Petiot, due to some “incomprehensible distraction,” was nowhere in sight. Raphaël was sick for some time afterward.

5 He could create This is very similar to the method adopted by Nevada in June 1930, when they changed their execution procedure. Scott Christianson, The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 98–99.

Illustration Credits

1.1 © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

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1.4 Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York

1.5 Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

1.6 Courtesy of Le Matin , photographer unknown

1.7 Photo by author, used with permission of the Service des Archives et du Musée de la Préfecture de police

1.8 © LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

1.9 © LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

1.10 © LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

1.11 Courtesy of Le Matin , photographer unknown

1.12 © LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

1.13 Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York

1.14 Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York

1.15 French Photographer (20th century) Private Collection / Archives Charmet / The Bridgeman Art Library

1.16 © LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

1.17 Photo by author, used with permission of the Service des Archives et du Musée de la Préfecture de police

1.18 Photo by author, used with permission of the Service des Archives et du Musée de la Préfecture de police

1.19 © Roger-Viollet / The Image Works

1.20 Marcel Petiot, Le hasard vaincu (1946)

1.21 Marcel Petiot, Le hasard vaincu (1946)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DAVID KING is the author of the acclaimed Vienna, 1814 and Finding Atlantis . A Fulbright Scholar with a master’s degree from Cambridge University, he taught European history at the University of Kentucky for several years. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife and children.

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