The trial was held in the city of Riom in central France, and had mainly political aims - namely to project the responsibility of defeat onto the leaders of the left-wing Popular Front government that had been elected in 1936.
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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.