Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France

Carmen Callil

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Dec 10, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 672 pages

Bad Faith tells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs” in France’s Vichy government.Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish property, which he used for his own gain. Carmen Callil’s riveting and sometimes darkly comic narrative reveals Darquier as a self-obsessed fantasist who found his metier in propagating hatred—a career he denied to his dying day—and traces the heartrending consequences for his daughter Anne of her poisoned family legacy. A brilliant meld of epic sweep and psychological insight, Bad Faith is a startling history of our times.

What people are saying

Bad faith: a forgotten history of family, fatherland and Vichy France

User Review  - Not Available - Book Verdict

Unaware that her father was responsible for sending to their deaths thousands of French Jews, many of them children, Anne Darquier grew up in England in the care of a nanny, having been abandoned in ...

Contents

• The Priests Children: 3
• PART II: 40
• COCK BULL: 48
• 4 Baby: 64
• Shreds and Patches: 80
• The Street: 88
• Iiame: 112
• Q Pot of Gold: 135
• 1Q n the Rampage: 170
• ork Family Fatherland: 192
• 3 Tormenting Men: 217
• Rats: 240
• Death: 277
• Having Fun: 300
• Loot 521: 321
• PART v: 348
• The Family 571: 370
• The Cricket Team: 394
• Dinosaurs: 416
• Postscript: 435
• Louis Darquiers Baronial Inventions: 462
• Notes: 473
• Bibliography and Sources 167: 567
• Index: 589

About the author

Carmen Callil was born in Australia and moved to England, where she began working in the publishing industry. In 1972 she founded Virago, publishing such authors as A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, and Toni Morrison. She was subsequently Managing and Publishing Director of Chatto & Windus, publisher-atlarge for Random House UK, and Director of Channel 4 Television. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and co-author of The Modern Library.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
• Author: Carmen Callil
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008
• ISBN: 0307481883, 9780307481887
• Length: 672 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; History / Europe / France; History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General