Irène Némirovsky condemned the citizens that worked with this government in her most famous book before she was executed. For 10 points each:
[10e] The anti-Semitic author Louis-Ferdinand Céline was put on trial for collaborating with what short-lived regime before its 1944 collapse?
ANSWER: Vichy France [or Vichy government or Vichy regime or Régime de Vichy; or État français or French State; prompt on France; reject “French Republic” or “République française”]
[10m] While scholars debate whether the writer Georges Simenon was a Nazi collaborator, he sold the film rights to this character, a pipe-wielding French police detective, to a German studio.
ANSWER: Inspector Maigret [or Jules Maigret; or Chief Inspector Jules Amédée François Maigret]
[10h] Under Nazi occupation, this author worked for the newspaper Le Soir. He included a caricature of a Jewish banker in The Shooting Star and drew on both Hitler and Mussolini for the unseen character Müsstler, the leader of the Syldavian Iron Guard.
ANSWER: Hergé (“air-ZHAY”) [or Georges Prosper Remi] (He created the character of Tintin.)
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