During WWII, the Vichy regime arrested and interned Léon Blum, Édouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel and Maurice Gamelin as political prisoners at the fort.
In a corollary illustration, her prostate figure is lying at the feet of a gravedigger readying to bury the grandeur of France; the gravedigger is Édouard Daladier, the Prime Minister of the French Republic.
Édouard Manet | Édouard Vuillard | Édouard Daladier | Jules Edouard Roiné | Édouard-Louis Pacaud | Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay | Édouard Lalo | Édouard Detaille | Édouard Stephan | Edouard Roditi | Édouard Michelin | Édouard Lucas | Édouard Lock | Édouard Lartet | Edouard Lanteri | Édouard Frère | Édouard Cortès | Édouard Carmignac | Édouard Balladur | Edouard A. Stackpole | Ange Edouard Poungui | Portrait of Louis de Bussy d'Amboise by Édouard Pingret | Pierre Édouard Blondin | ''Le Tennis'', huile sur toile d'Édouard Vuillard, 1907 | Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet | Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson | George-Édouard Desbarats | Edouard Verreaux | Edouard Vermeulen | Édouard Roditi |
During the Second World War, Léon Blum, Georges Mandel, Édouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud and Maurice Gamelin were imprisoned in the castle in 1942 before their appearance at the Riom Trial.
The Massilia Deputies, a rump of 27 Assembly members, including Diouf, Édouard Daladier, Georges Mandel, Jean Zay, and Pierre Mendès-France, boarded the Massilia, a ship chartered to transport Assembly members to Casablanca, where they planned to set up a government in exile.