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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2011
1 André Bellessort (born 1866) and Cardinal Baudrillart (born 1859) both died in 1942. The offcial website of the French Academy asserts that Bellessort was permanent secretary too briefly for his openly collaborationist views to damage the Academy. Abel Bonnard (1883–1968) lived in exile in Spain after the war.
2 The year cannot be read clearly, but the stamp on the postcard features Pétain.
3 Fernand de Brinon (1885–1947) was the Vichy government's official representative in Paris. After the war, he was tried, condemned to death, and executed for collaboration.
4 At this point Louis's brother Maurice (1875–1960), also a physicist and member of the Académie des Sciences, held the family title of Duke. Louis became Duke upon Maurice's death.