Other
Mme Andrieu, Narbonne, daughter of Georges Maury, Darquier family friend; Serge Déjean, Château de Pellepoix, Beaumont-sur-Lèze; Jean Michel Fabre, La Dépêche du Midi; Pierre Gérard, former Director of the Archives Départementales, Toulouse; Jean Lindoerfer, former employee of Les Grands Moulins de Strasbourg; Alain Roux, proprietor of Château, Domaine de Pellepoix; Henri Thamier, former Deputy and resistant.
Some information came from correspondence and phone conversations with members of the Jones family in Launceston and Toowoomba, and from extracts from notes made by Heather Jones Murdoch in 1981 on “The lives of Louis and Myrtle (San) D'Arquier,” sent to me by a younger member of the Jones family.
Beryl Stevenson of Carrick provided me with letters and documents concerning the Jones family in Carrick.
Interviews, in person or by telephone, were conducted by myself, by Julie Evans, and by Lucille Andel.
M. Ivan Barko, Sydney; Jacqueline Dwyer, author, Sydney; Michael Cathcart, Lecturer, the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne; Diane Dunbar, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston; Paulette Flipo, Melbourne; French Department, University of Melbourne; Jenny Gill, Archivist, Launceston Church Grammar School; Doug Hunter, military historian, NSW; Paul McFarlane, Director of College Development, Scotch Oakburn College; Mr. Stewart Morrison and Gwen Scott, Westbury Historical Society, Tasmania; Elizabeth Richards, military historian, NSW; staff at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra; Colin Thornton Smith, formerly French Department, University of Melbourne; Beryl Stevenson, Carrick.
SPAIN
Interviews, email correspondence and phone conversations with Teresa, daughter of Louis Darquier.
Interviews, in person or by telephone, were done by myself, by Cristina Rivas, by Sylvie Deroche, and by Helena Ivins.
Consuelo Alvarado, British Council in Madrid; Emilia Angulo, former employee, French embassy; Eileen Ashcroft, librarian, British Embassy; Jean-Michel Bamberger, journalist, and Juana (Biarnés) Bamberger, photographer; Antonio Marquina Barrio; Anne Bateson, Press Club of Madrid; John Booth, former head of immigration at the Australian embassy in Madrid; Diana Burr, secretary to the British Ambassador in Madrid; Bill Christian; Mrs. Maria Clark, formerly of the Escuele Central de Idiomas, Madrid; David Codling, Director, Arts and Literature, the British Council, Madrid; Louis de Bérard, French consulate, Madrid; Michael de Bertadano, colleague of Louis Darquier in Madrid; Jeanne Degrelle, first married to Henry Charbonneau, now widow of Léon Degrelle; Carmen de la Guardia, Depar tamento de Historia Contemporanea, Cantoblanco, Autonoma University of Madrid; Damaso de Lario, diplomat, Madrid; Professor Juan Avilés Farré, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid; Nigel Glendinning; Miguel Guerrero, Secretario de Juzgado, Carratraca; Father Raymond Hodson, Church of St. George; Gerald Howson, historian; Jean-Louis Huberti (Alain Baudroux), former correspondent of France-Inter in Madrid; Jean Ibbitson, MBE, Church librarian, Church of St. George; Michael Jacobs; Père Michel Lewkowicz, église Saint-Louis des Français; María del Carmen Mansilla, Subsecretaria General Técnica, Ministry of Information and Tourism; Cristina Gonzales Martin, directrice, Archives Ministerio de Asuntos Exterios, Madrid; Brian Nield, Director, école Briam; Francisco Perez, caretaker, British Cemetery, Madrid; Catherine Portera, formerly of French embassy, Madrid; Paul Preston; Commander John Rigge, former naval attaché, and Mrs. Pat Rigge, Madrid; Casimir Tilco, translator for Radio Nacional and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid; Peter Torry, British Embassy, Madrid; Georges Tourlet, French journalist, Madrid; Jane Walker, Guardian correspondent; Daniel Wickham, British Embassy, Madrid.
Britain
Elsie Lightfoot's documents and Brice-Lightfoot family albums and information: given to me by Alistair Rapley, great-nephew of Elsie Lightfoot, son of May Brice and Anne Darquier's godson.
Interviews, in person or by telephone, were done by myself, or by Helena Ivins.
Great Tew
Tony Clifton; Rev. Robin Denniston, formerly Vicar of St. Michael and All Angels, and Rosa Denniston; Julia Keal; Violet Kench; Danny Puddefoot, friend of May Brice; Mary Tustain; Michael Varney.
Oxfordshire
Elizabeth Boardman, Archivist, St. Hilda's College, Oxford; Peter Buckman, Little Tew; Beryl Coombes, née Beryl Clifton of Great Tew, childhood friend of Anne Darquier; Bill Coy, former director of a City of Oxford children's home; Gertie Eley, Enstone; Elaine Fraser, Jennifer Jowsey, Dr. Ruth Klemperer, Hilda Moor-house, Janet Purvis, Isobel Rhodes and Natalie Rothstein, Naomi Roberts, Muriel Watson, contemporaries of Anne Darquier at St. Hilda's College, Oxford— correspondence; Margaret Gilson, Old Windsor; Richard Graydon, Chipping Norton School; Eanswythe Hunter, Little Tew; Elizabeth Llewellyn-Smith, Principal, St. Hilda's College, Oxford; Patrick Marnham, Church Enstone; Brenda Morris, Chipping Norton School; Mrs. Mary Phipps, Kidlington Historical Society; Gerry Tyack,
Wellington Aviation Museum, Moreton in Marsh; Fred Wright, formerly of Cotuit Hall, a City of Oxford children's home.
Kidlington
John Amor, Kidlington Historical Society; Ron Carver, former student of East Ham Grammar School; Christine Causby, Secretary, Gosford Hill School; Elizabeth Harrington, Kidlington Historical Society; Audrey Kirby, former student of East Ham Grammar School; Pat Smalley, former student of East Ham Grammar School.
London
Keith Austin, Archivist, University of London Archive; Dr. A. C. S. Bloomer; Jeremy Bugler; Dr. Mary Coghlan; Dr. Peter Dally; Dr. Jack Dominion; Monseigneur Walter Drumm, formerly Catholic chaplain, Oxford; Griffith Edwards; Michael Field; Dr. Hugh Freeman; Colin Gale, Archivist, Bethlem Royal Hospital; Frank Gentry, Newnham History Society; Eva Hamburger; Dr. C. W. H. Havard; Julia Hobsbawm; Dr. Helen Hudson, formerly Dean of Women Students, King's College, London; Dr. Maurice Lipsedge; Mary Havard Miller; Maureen O'Neill; David Pryce-Jones; Marion Rea, Archivist, St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Professor Linford Rees; Professor Adrian Smith, Principal, Queen Mary, University of London; Kate Straus; Dr. Benjamin Ward; Dr. Diane Watson; Dr. Peter Whatmore; David Williamson, author.
Germany
Interviews conducted by Klemens Rothig.
Hadassa Ben-Itto, author; Magnus Brechtken, historian.
1. The Darquier family in Cahors,
c. 1906–7. Louise, Pierre, and in front, left to right, René, Jean, Louis.
2. Postcard of the sons of the Mayor of Cahors, at fencing class at the Lycée Gambetta, 1907. René is fencing with Jean; Louis, immediately to the right behind the fencing master, adopts what was to become a typical pose.
3. édouard Drumont and his anti-Semitic newspaper, La Libre Parole, 1901. He was the father of twentieth-century French anti-Semitism, of “France for the French.”
4. Charles Maurras and Léon Daudet, the two leaders of the nationalist movement and newspaper, Action Française.
5. The Marquis de Morès, Antoine Amédée Marie Vincent Monca de Vallombrosa, 1896. Aristocratic adventurer, anti-Semitic bully boy and Louis' preferred model.
6. Louis' “godfather,” Anatole de Monzie, Republican politician, lawyer, writer, wheeler-dealer, at his desk in Cahors, c. 1920.
8. Henry de Jouvenal, de Monzie's closest friend, with his wife, Colette, and their daughter “Bel-Gazou,” c. 1920.
8. Louis Louis-Dreyfus, 1938. “King Two Louis,” the “King of Wheat,” nominated by Louis Darquier as king of a world Jewish conspiracy.
9. The Jones family, c. 1911. Left to right, back row: Myrtle, Hector, William, Vernon; middle row: Colin (?), Henry, Alexandrina, Norman (?); front row: Olive, Hazel.
10. Australia as Terre Napoléon in Louis-Charles de Saulces de Freycinet's Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, 1811.
11. Cahors, Boulevard Gambetta, early twentieth century.
12. Launceston, Brisbane Street, early twentieth century.
(Left) 13. Jean, Pierre and Louis Darquier, in uniform, First World War, c. 1915. Louis, again, in a typical pose and as distant as he can get from his father.
(Right) 14. The National Archives of Australia have no photographs of no. 8911 Gunner William Robert Jones of the Second Australian Divisional Signal Company. This is a photo of Gunner Harold George Cope, who enlisted three months before Will Jones and who was killed in action in France in September 1917. Will Jones would have looked just like this on his enlistment in September 1915.
15. Statement of a witness at the Court of Inquiry into the death of 8911 Sapper William Robert Jones of the Second Australian Divisional Signal Company, June 1919.
16. The famous Savoyard Charles Workman, Myrtle's father-in-law, with his son Roy, c. 1905. Myrtle Jones married Roy in Sydney in 1923.
17. Charles Workman as Ben Hashbaz in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Grand Duke. He was in the original cast which opened at the Savoy Theatre, London, 7 March 1896.
18. Louis and Myrtle, court case. 32 at Marylebone Magistrates Court, 17 April 1930.
19. Anne, c. 1933, one of the photos which accompanied begging letters from Louis and Myrtle to René Darquier throughout the thirties.
20. Anne with May Brice, with whom she was brought up. May was the niece of Elsie and Maud Lightfoot, c. 1936.
21. Louis and Myrtle, 1931. Re-financed— and soon to be re-suited—by his brother René, Louis is ready to launch himself again upon literary and fashionable life in London.
22. Place de la Concorde, Paris, the riots of 6 February 1934. Louis was at the front of the fray.
23. The removal of the wounded, of whom Louis was one, from Place de la Concorde, 6 February 1934.
24. The funeral of Lucien Garniel, who died from his wounds after the riots. Members of the Association of the Wounded and the Victims of 6 February amidst a crowd of 2,500 persons, march towards Place Lafayette, where Louis, their founder and president, awaited them with the family of the dead boy.
25. Colonel François de la Roque, leader of Croix-de-feu at the Arc de Triomphe, 14 July 1935.
26. The nationalist leagues on the streets of Paris, 1934. Solidarité française, Croix-de-feu and the Camelots du Roi of Action Française.
(Left) 27. François Coty, the perfume and cosmetics baron, whose talcum powder funded numerous parties and newspapers of the far right, including his own nationalist league Solidarité française and newspapers, Ami du peuple and Le Figaro. (Right) 28. Eugène Schueller, founder and proprietor of L'Oréal. He and his beauty empire found it worth it to finance the most extreme—and murderous—of the fascist leagues and movements before, during and after the Second World War. After the Liberation, L'Oréal became, and continued to be, a hiding place for many French war criminals.
29. Pierre Taittinger, 1942, right-wing politician, admirer of Mussolini and Hitler, a powerful Catholic whose champagne and newspaper wealth enabled him to found his own league, Jeunesses Patriotes, and to wield vast power in many spheres, notably from the Paris city council at the Hôtel de Ville.
30. Pierre Taittinger's league, Jeunesses Patriotes, at the Salle Wagram, 1928.
31. In the middle, Taittinger's colleague and Louis' patron and supporter Charles Trochu, towering over his fellow councillors during his tenure as President of the Paris city council at the Hôtel de Ville, 1941–43.
32. Charles Trochu arranged for Louis' election to the Paris City Council in 1935: Louis' campaign leaflet, a fantastical document full of fabrications about his past, present and hoped-for future.
33. One of many similar covers of the many French editions of The Protocols of the Elders of Sion. This one, published c. 1934, could be Henry Coston's.
34. Louis Darquier appearing in court, July 1939, charged with disseminating propaganda on behalf of a foreign power. With him, most probably, is his sidekick and fellow accused, Pierre Gérard. From Louis' newspaper La France enchaînée, 15–31 July 1939.
35. José Felix de Lequerica, Spanish Catholic and fascist, ruthless anti-Republican, ambassador to France and Vichy, arch collaborator during the war; after it Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, then ambassador to the United States and the United Nations.
36. Louis Aragon, writer and poet, surrealist, communist and political activist, at the time of the Spanish Civil War, c. 1936.
37. Léon Blum, the first socialist and the first Jewish prime minister of France, at the time of his Popular Front government, c. 1936.
édouard Daladier, leader of the Radical Party between the wars, and many times prime minister of France, February 1934.
39. Bernard Lecache, c. 1930. Militant journal-ist, founder of LICA, Ligue Internationale contre l'Antisémitisme, and its newspaper Le Droit de Vivre, “The Right to Live.” FoughtLouis every inch of the way, from 1936onwards.
40. Louis' companions within the extremist fringes of French fascism, anti-Semitism and Nazi collaboration before and during the Second World War. Left to right: Jean Boissel, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Henry Charbonneau, Henry Coston, Pierre-Antoine Cousteau. All journalists or writers, ranging from the lunatic (Boissel) to the great (Céline). The next three: Pierre Gaxotte, Henri Massis and Thierry Maulnier, elected to the Académie Française in 1953, 1961 and 1964, respectively, were all Maurrassians: nationalist and anti-Semitic writers and editors, representing the intellectual and Catholic wing of Louis', and Vichy's, supporters. Last: Bernard Faÿ, Professor of American Civilisation, murderer of Freemasons, friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
41. More of the same, with some of the Nazis they served. Clockwise: Joseph Darnand, fanatical Catholic and head of the Milice, the Gestapo-style army set up by Vichy to fight the resistance; Philip Henriot, called the “French Goebbels,” the brilliant Catholic broadcaster for Vichy France; Paul Sézille, demented anti-Semite and alcoholic; Georges Montandon, sinister doctor and scientist, who decided which Jewish attributes qualified for Auschwitz. (Left) SS Hauptsturmführer Theodor Dannecker, who headed Eichmann's Judenreferat, his Jewish Bureau, in Paris, 1940–42. (Right) Otto Abetz, Hitler's Ambassador to Occupied France.
42. Franco and Pétain, Montpelier, February 1941.
43. May/June 1940, just before the fall of France. Left to right: General Maxime Weygand, Commander-in-Chief; Paul Baudouin, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister; and Marshal Pétain, then ambassador to Spain, summoned at this point, by Reynaud, to save France.
44. Cardinal Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, Archbishop of Paris, behind Cardinal Pierre-Marie Gerlier of Lyon. With their hero, Marshal Pétain, head of state, and Pierre Laval, head of the Vichy government. Outside the Hôtel du Parc, in Vichy, November 1942, as the Germans invaded the Vichy zone and occupied all of France.
45. Military parades were a feature of Vichy life. Here the 2ème Régiment d'Infanterie Coloniale marches past Marshal Pétain, Admiral Darlan and Pierre Laval. Louis Darquier is immediately behind Darlan; Vichy was about to announce his appointment as Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, April 1942.
46. The men of the second Vichy government, August 1940, on the steps of Pétain's state residence in Vichy, the Pavillon de Sevigné. Second left, behind: Admiral Darlan. In front, left to right: Paul Baudouin, Pierre Laval, Marshal Pétain, General Weygand.
47. General Charles de Gaulle broadcasting on the BBC in London, his now famous Appel of 18 June 1940—his call to the French people to fight on.
48. Jacques Doriot, the leading French fascist, holding a press conference in Paris, February 1944, on his return from the Russian front, where, in the uniform of the LVF (the Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism), he fought for Germany. With him, members of his fascist party, Parti Populaire Française, the PPF.
49. Léon Degrelle, devout Catholic and the leading Belgian fascist, who commanded his Légion Wallonie on the Russian front. Decorated by Hitler in February 1944, he escaped to live well in Spain until his death. With Pope John Paul II on 11 December 1991.
50. Louis' anti-Semitic propaganda. Here the Métro advertises one of his wartime creations for Vichy, l'Institut d'Etude des Questions Juives, the Institute for the Study of Jewish Questions, c. 1942–43.
51. Louis shaking hands with Reinhard Heydrich at the Ritz Hotel, watched by senior commander of the SS in Paris, Helmut Knochen, 6 May 1942. It was the BBC's subtitle on this shot, in Marcel Ophuls' Le Chagrin et la pitié, that first explained to me who Anne Darquier's father really was.
52. Louis Darquier on his appointment as Commissioner for Jewish Affairs for the Vichy government, May 1942.
53. Xavier Vallat, Vichy's first Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, at his desk at the Paris headquarters of the Commissariat, which was located in Louis Louis-Dreyfus' appropriated bank, Place des Petits-Pères, Paris, 1941.
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