Deaths by Firearm in France - Eddie Slovik, Marc Bloch, Evariste Galois, Joyce Kilmer, Paul Doumer, Francois Darlan, Pierre Laval (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Eddie Slovik, Marc Bloch, Evariste Galois, Joyce Kilmer, Paul Doumer, Francois Darlan, Pierre Laval, Symon Petliura, Alexander Berkman, Robert Brasillach, Jack Drummond, Michel Ney, Henri Pelissier, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Jean Jaures, Pierre Beregovoy, Schwartzbard trial, Francis, Duke of Guise, Francois Faber, Jean Bastien-Thiry, Hanns-Martin Schleyer, Henri Curiel, Louis Barthou, Pierre Goldman, Jean Cavailles, Gerard Lebovici, Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours, Joseph Epstein, Armand Carrel, Georges Besse, Ernst vom Rath, Pierre Molinier, Nanterre massacre, Jacques Mathieu Delpech, Shahriar Shafiq, Louis Philippe de Roffignac, Outel Bono, Constant Chevillon, Emmanuel Maximilien-Joseph Guidal, Jean de Broglie, Jim Mooney, Murder of Ibrahim Ali, Jules Dumont, Max Coyne. Excerpt: Pierre Laval (French pronunciation: 28 June 1883 - 15 October 1945) was a French politician. He was four times President of the council of ministers of the Third Republic, twice consecutively. Following France's Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government, signing orders permitting the deportation of foreign Jews from French soil to the death camps. After Liberation (1945), he was arrested, found guilty of high treason, and executed by firing squad. The controversy surrounding his political activities has generated a dozen biographies. Laval was born 28 June 1883 at Chateldon, Puy-de-Dome, in the northern part of Auvergne. His father worked in the village as a cafe proprietor, butcher and postman, and owned a vineyard and horses. Laval was educated at the village school in Chateldon, then at the age of 15 he was sent to a Paris lycee to study for his baccalaureat. Returning south to Lyon, he spent the next year reading for a degree in zoology. Laval joined the sociali...