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On 14 August 1941, a decree signed by Philippe Pétain required all civil servants to take an oath of loyalty to him. An official ceremony took place for the police on 20 January 1942, during which 3,000 delegates from the Paris Guard, the National Police and the Police Prefecture met in the great hall of the Palais de Chaillot, under the presidency of Pierre Pucheu, Minister of the Interior.
Les Temps Modernes filled the void left by the disappearance of the most important pre-war literary magazine, La Nouvelle Revue Française (The New French Review), considered to be André Gide's magazine, which was shut down by the authorities after the liberation of France because of its collaboration with the occupation. [2]
The Revue d'Action française, sometimes called the Revue d'AF or the little gray due to its gray cover, was the precursor to the L'Action française. It was a French biweekly journal founded by Henri Vaugeois and Maurice Pujo in 1899 [1] on the first floor of the Café de Flore in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was directed solely by ...
Le Temps always remained moderate politically. The early issues of the newspaper reflected Nefftzer's liberal philosophy and had considerable trouble achieving readership. He frequently had to turn to friends in Alsace who were able to help support Le Temps financially. Eventually, circulation began to grow, from scarcely 3,000 in 1861, to ...
The building at 93, rue Lauriston in Paris in which the Carlingue were based. It is commemorated presently by a plaque on the site. The Carlingue (or French Gestapo) were French auxiliaries who worked for the Gestapo, Sicherheitsdienst and Geheime Feldpolizei during the German occupation of France in the Second World War.
Both the Paris Police Prefecture's Brigade Criminelle and the Direction centrale de la Police judiciaire trace their history directly to the Sûreté. The French Sûreté is considered a pioneer of all crime-fighting organizations in the world, although London's Bow Street Runners , founded 1749, served a similar purpose at times.
After nearly a century Van Dyke remains the grandfather of almost all American desert writers. [6] Van Dyke died at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan on December 5, 1932. [2] He was the son of Judge John Van Dyke, and great grandson of John Honeyman, a spy for George Washington who played a critical role at the battle of Trenton.
John Van Dyke (politician) (1807–1878), American politician John Charles Van Dyke (1856–1932), American art historian and critic John Wesley Van Dyke (1849–1939), president of the Atlantic Refining Company, Philadelphia