Also worthy of Jules Ferry which preceded it. He was a Minister of National Education and Fine Arts, intelligent and cultured. He gives us in this book of testimonies about his life in jail with its humiliations, its unfair regulations and in which loneliness is one of the key words. And yet it was a great patriot and a Republican, a man respects. laws. He left a considerable work and the Vichy regime was obnoxiously Treaty. And we learn to be with him on the circumstances, allowing resentments, jealousies, hateful retaliation. During those years, from December 1940 to October 43, when stop his memories, he will demonstrate an incredible serenity. This book is not only an account of his life in prison. Political life is presented here as any history book could do. We follow with interest all under the policy. Exciting. Alas, at the end of loneliness, death, violent. Political judgments have caused his death, his death is a crime.