ABSTRACT
Pierre Laval must look elsewhere, and he did. He had, he said, written to the Garde des Sceaux, the Keeper of the Seals, which is in France the title given to the Minister of Justice. Three important accusations had been made, Laval said, in a single session: the testimony of Boivin-Champeaux, which he had never seen; a phrase at Compiegne which he had never uttered, and a phrase at Mayetet-Montagne which he had most certainly never pronounced. Pierre Laval had made his appeal to the jury. He had raised a critical issue. All of this had been met by prolonged applause and an affirmative vote for the new regime of 569 to 80 including a majority of Laval's political opponents of the Socialist and Radical Socialist parties. Laval again insisted that no one at the National Assembly had charged him with the responsibility for the Armistice.
