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even when he was writing on a guy called Georges Orez
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who was sort of an authoritarian crypto-fascist,
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and who had a lot of influence in the Seine-et-Marne,
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and in the Loire-et-Cher,
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and a lot of departments near Paris--
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he was called a troublemaker by an archivist
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because he tried to get documents that would've implicated
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lots of very powerful families--
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strikebreaking and that kind of stuff, in the 1930s.
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But when this book came out it had a major kind of effect
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and it was followed by a book that he did with Michael Marrus
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called Vichy and the Jews,