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

CHAPTER 35. THE VERDICT

1 “herrings in a cask” Le Figaro, April 5, 1946.

2 “in a scandalous buffoonery” Libé-Soir, April 5, 1946.

3 Dupin classified Petiot’s victims AN 334, AP 65, 3385.

4 “No, Petiot, we will not allow” AN 334, AP 65, 3444.

5 “Signed, the Procureur” … “Nor you!” PC, 267, and Dupin’s continuation, AN 334 AP 65, 3445.

6 “Let Justice be done” AN 334, AP 65, 3449.

7 “the pleasure of a hunting dog” Le Figaro, April 5, 1946.

8 “monster, an assassin, a thief” AN 334, AP 65, 4092.

9 what really, Floriot asked AN 334 AP 65, 4119–4120.

10 “executed in the name of the Resistance” AN 334, AP 65, 4120.

11 “There is no crime or misdemeanor” AN 334, AP 65, 4340–4341.

12 Madame Braunberger, Floriot noted AN 334, AP 65, 4274.

13 “opened fifteen times” AN 334, AP 65, 4277.

14 Could it perhaps be “B.P.” AN 334, AP 65, 4280.

15 he states it AN 334, AP 65, 4282; PC, 280.

16 “really something incredible” … “to your ears” AN 334, AP 65, 4289–4292.

17 “A sample?” … “They resemble each” AN 334, AP 65, 4300–4301.

18 “hats off for the hat trick” Jean-Marc Varaut, L’abominable Dr. Petiot (Paris: Balland, 1974), 261.

19 The patriot and hero Many accounts make Floriot end by saying that he, too, would always be proud of having defended Petiot, but those words are not in the stenographic account.

20 “I commend Petiot to your hands” AN 334, AP 65, 4430.

21 “the greatest defense summation” Associated Press, April 5, 1946.

22 “I cannot … nothing” AN 334 AP 65, 4430.

23 “Is the above mentioned” 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), 283; Thomas Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), 277.

24 “suffocating and reeling” France-Soir, April 5, 1946.

25 Marcel Petiot was AP 30.W.4, 17.

26 “hollowing out his sockets” Le Monde, April 5, 1946.

27 “I must be avenged!” PC, 292.