Drummond family: camping, 14; at charlotade (comic bull fight), 7; Claude Delorme on, 202; discovery of bodies of, 15–16; funeral of, 55; missing one and a half hours, 3; obtaining water from Dominici farm, 13, 86, 91, 182, 183, 192, 257, 285n18; possible detour of, 6–7; reputation of, 75; road trip, 3, 4, 5–6, 9–11
Duc brothers, 67
Dupuiche, Jean, 228
Duralumin band, 44, 150, 199
Durance River, 11, 37, 42, 109, 204
Duron, Madame, 175
East Surrey Regiment, 123
Emmanuelli, Mr., 17
Engels, Friedrich, 265
English families, rumored, 8
The Englishman’s Food (Drummond), 126, 291n7
Escudier, Émile, 69, 150–51
Estoublon, Henri, 26, 140
Estrangin, Benoît, 139
European Commission, 270
European Convention on Human Rights, xv
European Court for Human Rights, xiii
European Economic Community, 298n11
Evans, C. Lovatt, 135, 292n17
Evans, Timothy, xii–xiii
executions, extrajudicial, 17, 19–20
Eyre, J. Vargas, 127
Farquhar, George, 279–80
Faure government, 228
Febvre, Captain, 238–39
FFI (Forces françaises de l’intérieur), 19
Le Figaro, 58–59, 120, 214
film, undeveloped, 256
Fine Chemicals Group of the Society of Chemical Industry, 133
Floriot, René, 244–45
Food, Health and Income (Orr), 125
Forces françaises de l’intérieur (FFI), 19
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 285n9
Fourastié, Jean, 265, 298n2
fox dumped in well, 62
France, xvi–xix; American influence in, 268–69, 270, 278; international events and, 271–72; judicial system of, 171, 210, 212–14, 219, 293n6, 294n6, 295n10, 295n16; legal system of, 27–30, 33, 71, 85, 176, 185, 197; politics in, 265–66, 268, 275–79; post–World War II economy of, 268–71, 275; rural to urban change of, 265–66, 272; sentimentalization of rural, 266–67, 272–75; in Times editorial, 213; writings on, 272–73
France Soir, 221–22, 262
Francs-Tireurs et Partisans Français (FTPF). See FTPF (Francs-Tireurs et Partisans Français)
French Communist Party (PCF). See PCF (Partie Communiste Française)
French Revolution, xviii, 273
French Section of the Workers’ International (Section Française de l’internationale Ouvrière), 266, 268, 285n8
Friedmann, Georges, 273
Friend, G. E., 125–26
FTPF (Francs-Tireurs et Partisans Français): crimes involved with, 18, 20–21, 22–23; local people in, 17, 19, 43, 79; supporting Dominici family, 56, 72
Gabin, Jean, 264
Galizzi, Jean, 199–200, 259
Ganagobie (Provence): description of, 6, 139, 141; as religious center, 139, 140, 142, 264; as resistance base, 19; school at, 141
Garcin, Daniel, 259
Garcin family, 200
Garçon, Maurice, 57
Garola, Suzanne, 220
Gaulle, Charles de, xviii, 262, 268, 271
Gauthier (truck driver), 150
gendarmes, 32, 33–34
Germain, Marie. See Dominici, Marie
Germain, Rose (later Seguin), 137, 139
Germain family, 137–39
Gilbert, Fernand, 24–25
Gillard, Charles: Bartkowski case and, 233, 235, 236–37; beginning inquiry, 221–22; final meeting with Gaston Dominici, 255–56; gaining rogatory power, 245; on Gaston Dominici’s trial, 208; interviewing Yvette Dominici, 258; Louis Pagè on, 249; Pierre Carrias and, 241–42; questioning Augusta Caillat, 225; winding down investigation, 258–59
Giono, Jean, xvi; The Hussar on the Roof, 154; influence of, 6, 171–72, 273; Notes sur l’affaire Dominici, 295n13; on Provence and peasants, 23–24, 65, 167, 261
Girard, Dr., 38–39, 41
Giraud, Mr. (Ganagobie farmer), 142–43
Giraud, Simon, 102
Girolami, César, 33, 36, 37, 118, 257
the glorious thirty, 265, 298n2
Goguillot, Inspector, 221
Le Grand Albert, 140, 292n23
Grand Hotel, 3
Grand’ Terre, 10–11, 76, 141, 143, 264, 275
Gras, Andrè, 22
Gras rifle, 20, 285n6, 289n32
Great Britain: legal and judicial system of, xii, 121, 213, 214, 215; wages in, 283n4(ch.1); World War II and, 1–2, 131, 291n10
Grimaud, Lucien, 81, 120
Grisard, Inspector, 221
Groupi mains sales (Becker), xviii–xix
Gualdi, Luigi, 142, 163
Guérin de Beaumont, Jean Michel, 218–19, 226–27, 296n6
Guérino, Victor, 101–2, 187
Guerrier, Eric, 284n8, 284n17, 286n8, 289n8, 289n31
Guesde, Jules, 265
Guichard, Philippine, 136
Guieu, Gabrielle, 216
guns, 20, 43, 44, 112, 230, 285n6, 286n6, 289n8, 289n32. See also carbine; murder weapon
gunshots, 43–44, 47, 52, 53, 93, 117, 157–58, 172, 179, 180, 224
gunshot wounds, 30, 38–40
Halliburton, W. D., 124
Halluin, Henri d’, 267
Harkis, xvii, 272
Harzic, Georges, 32–33, 57, 60–61, 67, 115, 119
hat mix-up, 118
Hemingway, Ernest, 285n9
Héraud, Marcel, 244, 245–46
Heyriès family, 141
Hillman (Drummond auto): after crime, 46, 169; contents of, 55; description of, 2, 6; distance from Grand’ Terre of, 27; Dominici family noticing, 13; Elizabeth Drummond sleeping in, 14; flesh on rear bumper of, 38–39, 117; people peering inside, 67, 86; returned to crime scene, 89; seen outside hotel, 9; substitute for, at trial, 196; tampered with at crime scene, 34, 68
Hillman, second, 58, 71, 72–74, 75, 288n16
Hirsch, Robert, 121
Hobday, Gordon, 134
Hopkins, Frederick, 124
Horder, Lord, 128
horse with halter, 204
Hotel L’Ermitage, 7
Hot Springs Conference, 131
The Hussar on the Roof (Giono), 65, 154
images d’Épinal, 167, 293n1
incivisme, 275–76
Indochina, xvii, 270, 271
industrial proletariat, 266, 276, 277
“Infortunés Drummond: Rapport d’autopsie,” 286n2
Interpol, 43, 73
Jameson, Wilson, 131, 291n12
Jo (man who spent night at Grand’ Terre), 80, 81–83
Jours de France, 231–32
Jouval, André, 20
Jouve, Paul, 71, 177
judicial police, 26, 28, 29, 32, 48–49, 67, 110, 286n18. See also police, French; Sûreté National
jury concept in French law, 28, 210, 293n6
jury in Dominici case, 168, 174, 196, 204–7, 247–48
Das Kapital (Marx), 265
“kill another” threat, 95, 149, 156, 191, 199, 289n31
Koenig, Marie-Pierre, 19
Krammer, Erich, 236
L’affaire Dominici (film), xviii, 264–65, 281
L’affaire Dominici (Guerrier), 284n8, 284n17, 286n8, 289n8, 289n31
Landru, Henri Désiré, 56, 220
landslide: Faustin Roure examining, 15, 87; Gaston Dominici on, 52, 95, 101, 104, 106, 108, 113, 158; Gustave Dominici on, 47, 53–54, 93, 94, 150; newly formed, 12–13; Zézé Perrin on, 86, 88
Lasker Group Award, 131, 291n12
L’Aurore, 57, 212
Lavender Festival (Digne, France), 4
Le Beau Cyprès, 4
Léger commission, 29–30
Legonge (dog handler), 31
Lend-Lease Act, 131
Léotard, Berthe, 145–46
Léotard, Cyrille, 145–46
Leroy, Nelly, 80–82
> Le Roy Ladurie, Jacques, 266–67, 298n6
Lettres de mon moulin (Daudet), 167
L’Humanité, 57, 58, 74
Libération Sud, 19
Llorca, Antoine, 231–32
Lopez, Manuel. See Della Serra, Capt.
Lorenzi, Father, 19, 24, 87, 143
L’Unità, 277
Lure International Meetings, 6, 284n10
Lurs, France, 5–6
Lurs: Toute l’affaire Dominici (Domènech), 287n15
M1 (gun), 44, 112. See also carbine; murder weapon
magistrates: examining, xiii, 28–30, 85, 121, 214, 250, 258; prosecuting, 28–29, 214
Magnan, Pierre, xvi
Magnus, Albertus. See von Bollstädt, Albert
Maillet, Auguste, 79, 137, 141, 144
Maillet, Ginette, 43
Maillet, Paul: anger and violence toward, 79–80; answering questions, 44, 91, 184, 192; during crime reenactment, 118–19; Dominici family reconciliation and, 145; Edmond Sébeille and, 84, 119; guns and, 43–44, 79–80, 178–79, 201; hearing rumors, 103; illegal activities of, 43–44; metal cart theft by, 200, 202; PCF (Partie Communiste Française) and, 17, 18, 78–79; revealing information, 69, 84, 150–51; as schoolboy, 141; as suspect, 76, 151; as threatened fourth victim, 199
Maillet family, 78, 141, 144–45
Maquis, 21, 262–63, 286n6
Marque, Émile, 7–9, 284n12
Marrian, Guy, 1, 4, 73, 133, 178, 183, 192
Marrian, Jacqueline, 4
Marrian, Phyllis, 4, 178, 183, 192
Marrian, Valerie, 4, 6
Marrian family, 55, 256
La Marseillaise, 17, 57, 70, 81, 115, 120
Marshall Plan, 269–70, 276
Martin, Jules, 247
Martinaud-Déplat, Léon, 56, 85, 121
Marty, André, 22–23, 285n9
Marty, Marguerite, 213–14
Marx, Karl, 265, 266
Massot, Marcel, 121, 248
Mattan, Mahmood Hussein, xii–xiii
Mauriac, François, 167
Maurois, André, 167
Mayer, André, 131–32, 165–66, 217, 227–28
McCann, Madeleine, xii
Meade, Geoffrey, 295n12
Medical Research Council, 128
meeting of PCF (French Communist Party), rumored, 66, 184–85
Mendras, Henri, 273
men rumored to be seen, 60, 80–81, 180
Le Méridional, 57–58, 115
Merlan, Dr., 176
Mével, Noël, 63–64
michelines, 284n17
ministerial circular number 32, 33
Ministry of Food, 126, 127, 128, 130, 131, 291n10
Ministry of Health, 128, 131, 291n12
mobile brigades. See judicial police
Moesto, Roman, 236
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 18, 270
Le Monde, 57, 63, 172
monetary allowance for travel, 3, 283n3(ch.1), 284n6
money changing hands, 80
Monnet, Jean, 269
Monod, Samuel. See Vox, Maximilien
Montarron, Marcel, 247
Moradis (Swiss killer), 236
Morice, André, 248
Morin, Dr., 242–43
Moro-Giafferi, Vincent de, 56–57
motive, xi, xii, xv; as important in French investigations, 26, 37; lacking, 77–78, 83, 122, 212, 232; possible, 32, 59, 106, 114, 175, 203, 217, 224
motorcycle with sidecar, xi, 27, 52, 53, 108, 111, 157
Moulin, Jean, 19
Mouvement Républicain Populaire, 268
Moynier, Joseph, 179
Mucha, Stephan, 48
mulberry tree, 45, 63, 88, 105, 108, 188, 286n8
murder weapon: bullet from, 63; Clovis Dominici and, 92, 186, 195, 202, 205; disposal of, 37, 42; as evidence, 46; Gaston Dominici and, 92, 110; Robert Sébeille and, 49, 50, 186; splinter of wood from, 35, 42, 173, 209; uncertain possession of, 43, 50, 79–80, 150, 205. See also carbine
Muzy, François, 19–20
Muzy, Mrs., 20, 141, 170
Nalin, Paul, 38–39, 177–78
National Health Service, 291n12
“national loaf,” 130–31
National Police. See Sûreté National
News Chronicle, 121, 214
Ninth Mobile Brigade, 32
Nobel Prize, 291n2, 291n12
Notes sur l’affaire Dominici (Giono), 295n13
Nottingham Playhouse, 134
Nouville: Un Village Français (Bernot and Blanchard), 273
oath issue, 185, 189, 212, 227–28, 256
Oddou, Joseph, 218–19
oil for guns, 164–65, 178–79, 194
Olivier, Jean-Marie: on day of murder discovery, 15, 24–25, 47–48, 287n10; in Gustave Dominici’s testimony, 53, 64–65, 94, 158; during inquiry, 89–91; at scene reconstruction, 63; testifying, 180
Ollivier, André, 61, 63, 178–79
“Opération Bergerie,” 81–83
Orr, John Boyd, 125, 131, 291n12
Orsatelli (public prosecutor), 64, 221, 222, 231
Pagè, Louis, 249
Pagnol, Marcel, xvi
Panayotou, Aristide, 60–61, 71, 169, 179–80, 287n24
Le Parisien Libéré, 120, 135
Paris Match, 31, 73
Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, 127
Parti Communiste Française (PCF). See Communist Party; PCF (Partie Communiste Française)
Patin, Maurice, 166, 227–28, 296n16
PCF (Partie Communiste Française), xv, 17–20, 23, 56, 57, 78–79, 266. See also Communist Party
peasantry: changing attitudes toward, 272–76; depicted by artists, 273; depicted by writers, 167, 273; French concept of, 298n16; Gaston Dominici representative of, 274; gradual elimination of, 265; industrial proletariat and, 266, 276–77; mentality of, xii, 45, 50–51, 171–72, 258–59, 299n20; misjudged by Edmond Sébeille, 68–69; post–World War II, 275; as seen by Philippe Pétain, 267
Pélabon, Madame, 167
“Penitents” (sandstone columns), 9–10
People’s League of Health, 130
Périès, Roger: Charles Chenevier and, 226; crime scene reconstruction and, 115–16, 118–19; on day of murder discovery, 27, 33; guilty of minor infraction, 166; Gustave Dominici and, 64, 70, 196–97; locating carbine storage place, 99–100; Louis Pagè on, 249; in “Opération Bergerie,” 81, 82; promotion of, 231; questioning Clotilde Araman, 163–64; questioning Clovis Dominici, 96, 112–14, 151–52, 159, 163, 164–65; questioning Gaston Dominici, 107–8, 112–14, 164, 165; questioning Gustave Dominici, 112–14, 149–50, 151, 155, 156–59, 159–62; questioning minor witnesses, 92–94; questioning Yvette Dominici, 100–101, 152–53; questioning Zézé Perrin, 164; starting judicial inquiry, 148–49; suspending inquiry, 88–89; Wilhelm Bartkowski report and, 233
Perrin, Aimé, 6, 25, 44
Perrin, Aimé, Mrs., 25
Perrin, Francis, 6, 75, 81–82, 103
Perrin, Germaine, 13, 26, 85–86, 88, 140, 183–84, 192, 259
Perrin, Louis, 81–82
Perrin, Roger, 13, 26, 199
Perrin, Zézé: answering questions, 85–86, 88, 92, 164; asking for alibi, 199–200; Calixte Rozan on, 201–4; confronting Gaston Dominici, 255–56; on day of murder discovery, 26–27; Dominici family and, 148; Émile Pollak on, 205; Gaston Dominici on, 164, 174, 182–83, 192, 218, 220, 224, 225, 250; Germain Perrin on, 183; Gilbert Dominici’s bicycle and, 88, 182, 190; Gustave Dominici and, 13, 91; as pathological liar, 77, 164, 169, 185, 259; as suspect, 77, 78; testifying, 182, 191–92
Pétain, Philippe, 267
Peyruis (commune), 17, 19, 20–21, 56, 59, 142
photographs/photography: as evidence, 71, 116, 182, 242, 248, 260; needed, but lacking, 38, 117; during trial, 168
Pieds-Noirs, xvii, 272
Pinay, Antoine, 270
Plan de Modernisation de l’Équipement, 269
poaching: Gustave Dominici and, 183, 192, 242; as part
of Gaston Dominici persona, 110; Paul Maillet and, 76, 192; in peasant life, 139, 154, 194; in psychic’s vision, 62; Zézé Perrin and, 180, 183, 192
police, British, 73–74, 75
police, French: Algerians and, 241; British press on, 58, 121; carelessness of, 61–62, 71, 100; criticism of, 212–14; gendarmes and, 32, 34; Gustave Dominici on, 64; local residents and, 65, 85; methods and role of, 26, 27, 33–34, 116; PCF (Partie Communiste Française) and, 17–18, 19, 45, 56. See also judicial police; Sûreté National
police dog, 31
Pollak, Émile: clients of, 288n8; in court, 169, 174–75, 176, 178–79, 182, 184; Dominici family and, 119; dossier and, 168; eager to take Dominici case, 116; Edmond Sébeille and, 186; frustrated with case, 159, 192, 194; Gaston Dominici and, 205–6, 223–24, 240–41; Gustave Dominici and, 65, 70, 71, 155–56; on inconsistencies in court case, 187, 188, 205–6; Léon Dominici and, 245; in motor accident, 148; oath issue and, 185, 189; protesting rogatory power, 88; questioning Clovis Dominici, 194–95; requesting dismissal of case, 165; style of, 174; visiting Grand’ Terre, 80–81; Zézé Perrin and, 191
Pompidou, Georges, 270
Popular Front, 266
Porton Down Experimental Station, 127, 280, 292n17
Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones, 16
potato transaction, 84
press, British, xii, 58, 68, 121, 211, 214
press, French, 68, 120–21, 212, 231–32, 247
Le Provençal, 115
Provençal mentality, 48, 49–50, 65, 167, 258–59
Provence (France), xv, 4, 14, 154, 261, 266, 281
Provisional Government of the French Republic, 268–69
Prudhomme, Pierre, 101–4, 106, 175, 188
psychics, 62–63, 175–76
psychology, 121, 171–72, 176
Puisssant, Pierre, 20
Quesnay, François, 272
Queyrel, Adrien, 72
Queyrel brothers, 21
Radical-Socialistes, 268
railway company: employees of, 13, 15, 25, 43, 51, 89, 144, 175–76; raincoat at station of, 175–76, 263
railway line: fine for obstruction of, 11, 284n17; landslide threatening to obstruct, 12, 13, 47; location of, 11
raincoat at railway station, 175–76
Ranchin, Henri, 33, 42, 51, 76
rationing, 1, 129, 130, 275, 283n1(ch.1)
Rebaudo (gendarme), 27
Reilly, Patrick, 59
Reliquet (attorney), 214
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