ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the conversation between Yves-Frederic Jaffre and Pierre Lavalth regarding the cultivation and care of fruit trees. Laval was chatting with one of the guards. Laval was calm, relaxed, with a welcoming smile for ves Frederic Jaffre. He asked, as he always did, for news of his family, and then took up his conversation with the guard. They were discussing the cultivation and care of fruit trees. Laval thrived on conversations like this, but the guard gracefully withdrew. Laval then made the essence of the case for his policy under the Occupation. Laval recounted how he had met him in Paris. The Armistice, Laval said, had been hard, with the diabolical line of demarcation and the attachment of the departments of the Nord to the German military command in Brussels. Laval was surrounded by a clerical-reactionary clique of singular ideas.
