That Good Mr Paul - The Former Collaborator Who Fooled Everyone
That Good Mr Paul - The Former Collaborator Who...

That Good Mr Paul - The Former Collaborator Who Fooled Everyone

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That old family friend everyone thought they knew so well…

When Paul Pradier dies at the age of 93, the Albert family loses a friend, an "adoptive uncle" full of life and humour. But a phone call from the Dordogne shakes this image: a troubled past is mentioned, a conviction, prison.

Frédéric Albert then embarks on an investigation that will overturn everything he thought he knew about this old man whom everyone held in affection. At 19, during the Occupation, the young Paul had enlisted in the service of the Nazis in Périgueux. Armed with a pistol at his belt, he took part in the hunt for Resistance fighters, Communists and Jews: a collaborator of the worst kind.

At the crossroads of intimate memory and history, Ce bon monsieur Paul traces the fate of an ordinary man who became a cog in the machinery of terror, and raises questions about the right to be forgotten and the impossibility of forgiveness.

 

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Author 1
Frédéric Albert
Publication date
January 2026
Pages
224
Cover
Paperback
Format
14.0 cm × 20.5 cm
Language
French
Publisher 
Tallandier

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