Author: Cassagnau, le Procureur Général Gustave
Title: Le Procès de Riom. Réquisitoire de Mr. Procureur Général Devant la Cour Supreme de Justice. First Edition
Description: Riom, France: 15 Octobre 1941. Folio newsprint. 59 x 43cm. Folded in 4. 17 colunms. Few annotations by Paul Lombard.. There were originally seven defendants at the Riom Trial, though Pétain later withdrew the charges against Paul Reynaud and Georges Mandel without explanation, surrendering them to the Germans instead; Mandel was later executed by the Vichy regime's Milice. The five who stood trial were: Léon Blum (born 1872), leader of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) socialist party and a two-time Prime Minister of France (4 June 1936 to 22 June 1937 and 13 March 1938 to 10 April 1938) during the rule of the left-wing coalition Popular Front. As a Jew, Blum was a target of particular hatred for the Vichy regime and the Nazis, and he was widely seen as the principal defendant in the trial. Blum was defended by Samuel Spanien who was Secrétaire de la Conférence du barreau de Paris.. Édouard Daladier (born 1884), Prime Minister of France from 10 April 1938 to 21 March 1940, former member of the Radical-Socialist Party. He was among the 27 French deputies and senators who had fled Metropolitan France on 21 June 1940 from Bordeaux on board the ship Massilia, a month before the vote on constitutional changes that dissolved the Third Republic and gave extraordinary powers to Pétain. Daladier was arrested on his arrival in Vichy-governed French Morocco on 8 August 1940.. Maurice Gamelin (born 1872), former commander-in-chief of the French Army during the May–June 1940 Battle of France Guy La Chambre (1898), former Minister for the French Air Force.. Robert Jacomet, former Controller-General of Army Administration... Provenance Estate of Paul Lombard. Né en 1889, Paul Lombard a été rédacteur en chef de la revue L’Homme libre, journal de Clémenceau, et critique littéraire sous le pseudonyme de Louis Méritan. Paul Lombard est de ces critiques qui, comme l’a montré Thierry Laget (Proust, Prix Goncourt, Gallimard, 2019), reprochaient à l’Académie Goncourt d’avoir décerné leur prix à un écrivain trop vieux, trop riche : "Au lieu de cela, cette année, le prix Goncourt [-] échoit à M. Proust [qui] n’est pas jeune : il a conquis en peu de jours une notoriété dont j’ignore le secret ; le prix Goncourt, même s’il l’a mérité, ne lui sera d’aucune utilité", déplore-t-il dans L’Homme libre du 11 décembre 1919 (p. 2). Probablement aurait-il préféré que Les Croix de bois de Dorgelès remportât de prix, d’autant que l'écrivain avait été un collaborateur régulier de L’Homme libre... Expertise by Ségolène Beauchamp, 86bis rue de Bellébat, 45000 Orléans and Pierre Prévost, 75 rue Michel Ange, 75016 Paris. .

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