Josée Laval

Josée maintained a literary salon frequented by collaborationists Xavier Vallat, René Bousquet, Marquis Fernand de Brinon and Otto Abetz.

[3][4] After the Liberation, they took refuge in the outskirts of Paris and tried vainly to obtain a quick release for her father and clear his reputation;[2] but they could not prevent his execution on 15 October 1945 in the Fresnes Prison.

[6] A television documentary entitled Les Carnets de Josée Laval is devoted to her in 2018 describes especially her life during the Occupation.

The critic from the newspaper Le Monde wrote in this regard: : 'Each time we read [an excerpt from her notebooks], an immense feeling of shame invades us, so much so that the denial of Nazi horrors agitates this past that does not pass'.

[7] Alexandre Jardin (born in 1965), who knew her as a child, also evokes her in Des gens très bien (2011), where Paul Morand also appears.