1940
October 3: Publication of the Statute of the Jews, who are excluded from public service, the press, entertainment, and education, and are likely to be interned in special camps.
October 4: Ir ne N mirovsky does not appear on the Otto list mentioning the banned authors. Esnard is considering the publication of Chekhov’s Life.
October 7: Ir ne and Michel Epstein are listed as Jews, the sub-fecture of Autun.
8 October: Jean Fayard breaks the contract that committed him to publish Jeunes et Vieux in Candide, under the title of final Les Biens de ce monde.
October 22: Learns the death of the Abb Chard, on June 20, in the Vosges, of a bullet in the middle of the road. He will inspire the character of Philippe P ricand in Suite fran aise.
October 24: P tain meets Hitler, Montoire. Purpose of the policy of collaboration with Germany.
