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3 unusual facts about Anatole de Monzie


Anatole de Monzie

Friend of Otto Abetz, Darquier de Pellepoix and Fernand de Brinon, he was nonetheless an object of hatred for many among the regime de Vichy.

Successively, and very often simultaneously, he became counsellor, general, mayor of Cahors (the local prefecture), deputy and senator.

He was also connected to various French writers and intellectuals of the time, including Colette, Roland Dorgelès, Lucien Febvre and Pierre Benoit, whom he introduced to the Lot, especially the little town of Saint-Céré, where the writer wrote several of his works.



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