July 1941. Montélimar, north of Avignon. Socialist Marx Dormoy, former Minister of the Interior in the French governments of the late 1930s, lives practically imprisoned in the Hotel Relais de l’Empereur. Following the partial Nazi occupation and the administrative partitioning of France, the Vichy collaborationist regime has arrested high-ranking officials from the Popular Front governments and is keeping them isolated in hotels and spas. The w…
July 1941. Montélimar, north of Avignon. Socialist Marx Dormoy, former Minister of the Interior in the French governments of the late 1930s, lives practically imprisoned in the Hotel Relais de l’Empereur. Following the partial Nazi occupation and the administrative partitioning of France, the Vichy collaborationist regime has arrested high-ranking officials from the Popular Front governments and is keeping them isolated in hotels and spas. The w…