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p. 104 ‘The last scene’ Bullitt (ed.), For the President.

p. 104 ‘Say there, Aldebert’ Yves Pourcher, Pierre Laval vu par sa fille d’après ses carnets intimes, Paris: Le Cherche-Midi, 2002, p. 235. This story comes from a diary of Josée Laval de Chambrun. The diaries are held by the Fondation Josée et René de Chambrun in René and Josée’s former house at 6-bis Place du Palais Bourbon, Paris 75007. The directors of the foundation allowed me to read, but not to copy, Josée’s diaries for the occupation years. Many of the entries, however, are reproduced in Pourcher’s book. The directors did permit me to read and copy René and Josée de Chambrun’s letters and other documents.

p. 104 ‘I was introduced’ Peabody, Occupied Territory, p. 122.

p. 104 ‘I am going to … Of all the people’ Ibid., p. 123.

p. 105 ‘Without suspecting that’ Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Lengthen, p. 132.

p. 105 ‘A row of high screens Ibid., p. 128.

p. 105 ‘What a kowtowing’ Ibid.

p. 105 ‘Of course not’ Brownell and Billings, So Close to Greatness, p. 262.

p. 105 ‘In those first weeks … I think most’ Robert Murphy, Diplomat among Warriors, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1964, p. 71.

p. 106 ‘The old soldier … The Marshal was then Ibid., pp. 72–3.

p. 107 ‘The president wants’ René de Chambrun, Mission and Betrayal, 1940–1945: Working with Franklin Roosevelt to Help Save Britain and Europe, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1992, p. 66.

p. 107 ‘Radiograms reporting the advance’ Letter from René de Chambrun to New York, recipient’s name blocked out by the FBI, 31 May 1945, from FBI files supplied under Freedom of Information Act, unnumbered file, FOIPA No. 1088544-001. See also de Chambrun, Mission and Betrayal, pp. 67–8. René de Chambrun, I Saw France Fall: Will She Rise Again?, New York: William Morrow and Company, 1940, p. 199.

p. 108 ‘I maintain that’ Chambrun, Mission and Betrayal, p. 69.

p. 108 Alice had once caught ‘Two for Cissy’, Time, 2 August 1937.

p. 109 ‘You have been able’ René de Chambrun, Pierre Laval: Traitor or Patriot?, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984, p. 62.

p. 109 Aware of food shortages de Chambrun, Mission and Betrayal, p. 115.

p. 110 ‘refreshed and ready’ ‘Black Week’, Time, 24 June 1940.

p. 110 ‘France will remain firmly’ de Chambrun, Pierre Laval, p. 63.

p. 111 ‘The president has’ Ibid., p. 64.

p. 111 ‘René de Chambrun’ ‘Concrete Guy’, Time, 21 October 1940.

p. 111 ‘like his mother’ Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Lengthen, p. 137.

p. 112 ‘He is a plausible’ British Embassy, Washington, Telegram from Mr Butler (Washington), No. 2675, Registry Number C 12267/7407/17, Foreign Office Files p. 211, British National Archives, Kew.

p. 112 ‘we don’t like’ Ibid.

Chapter Nine: Back to Paris

p. 113 ‘It was late’ Polly Peabody, Occupied Territory, London: The Cresset Press, 1941, pp. 151–2.

p. 113 ‘put both fists … This was my’ Ibid., p. 155.

p. 114 ‘My old lady’ Clara Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Lengthen: The Story of My Life, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949, p. 139.

p. 114 ‘a German official … The use of the’ Ibid., p. 139.

p. 115 ‘During those first’ Ibid., p. 142.

p. 115 ‘young, attractive … a grand sense’ ‘Life in Paris, Special Wednesday Reportage’, First Library Broadcast, Paris-Mondiale, 21 February 1940, in the Archives of the American Library of Paris, Box 20, File K.5 (American Library Clippings, 1939–1940).

p. 116 ‘pasted U.S. seals’ Dorothy Reeder, ‘The American Library in Paris: September 1939–June 1941, CONFIDENTIAL’, Report to the American Library Association, 19 July 1941, American Library Association Archives, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, p. 9.

p. 116 ‘It is a funny point’ Ibid., p. 10.

p. 116 The occupation meant Ibid., p. 12.

p. 116 ‘a stiff Prussian-looking’ Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Lengthen, p. 144.

p. 117 ‘held each other’ Ibid.

p. 117 ‘You will necessarily … No, my dear young’ Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Lengthen, pp. 144–5.

p. 117 Works by Ernest Hemingway