Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

CHAPTER 27. “NOT IN DANGER OF DEATH”

1 “hundreds of marriage proposals” A.A.P. correspondent, Sydney Morning Herald, March 20, 1946.

2 “It is very simple” AN 334, AP 65, 4458.

3 “I have detected them” Ibid.

4 “How did you get rid” … “My client” PC, 183–184.

5 “He was served” John V. Grombach, The Great Liquidator (New York: Zebra Books, 1980), 305–306. Jean-Marc Varaut finishes the words of his friend Floriot in L’abominable Dr. Petiot (Paris: Balland 1974), 222.

6 “Simonin, or under his real name” Leser wanted an investigation into Yonnet’s allegations. Vérification, March 28, 1946, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

7 “Shut up” … “minister of Pétain” PC, 184–186. For a different wording of Véron, see Jean-François Dominique, L’affaire Petiot: médecin, marron, gestapiste, guillotiné pour au moins vingt-sept assassinats (Paris: Éditions Ramsay, 1980), 208.

8 “What are the names of the people” Thomas Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), 202.

9 “Oh, you know” Ibid.

10 “At [Chalon-sur-Saône]” PC, 186.

11 “cloak and dagger novel” Claude Bertin, Les assassins hors-série: Gilles de Rais, Petiot, vol. 10 of Les grands procès de l’histoire de France (Paris: Éditions de Saint-Clair, 1967), 160–161.

12 “It was the famous Jodkum” Ibid., 162.

13 “What about the bodies” … “Oh, no!” Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes, 202–203.

14 One journalist noticed Chicago Daily Tribune, March 20, 1946.

15 “You know well” … “I should hope so” PC, 187.

16 I AM NOT IN DANGER L’Aurore, March 20, 1946.

17 “What about me?” … “What, are you bored?” PC, 191; Bertin Les assassins hors-série, 166.

18 “a demon” New York Herald Tribune (international edition), March 20, 1946.

19 “the guillotine is too swift” Ibid.