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Jean Trémoulet, the Unloved Consul-General, MARGARET BARRETT "... By mid-December Loubère had resigned from his position and offered his services to de Gaulle, but another sturdy supporter of the Free French on the consulate-general staff, the vice-consul Frank Puaux, now took part in a financial dispute with his superior. Vichy had sent a large sum of money to Trémoulet, via the Swiss consul-general, for urgently needed consulate funds. Puaux, responsible for Treasury matters, found that Trémoulet had deposited the money in an account bearing his own name, and wrote to him requesting its transfer into the official account. Trémoulet’s response was to inform Vichy that he had suspended Puaux for ‘serious insubordination’. The Consul-General failed on this occasion, however, for Vichy did not support the charge, though it dismissed Puaux soon after when he moved to New Caledonia to join the Free French administration there..." Laurent Laloup le jeudi 14 septembre 2017 Contribution au livre ouvert de Frank Puaux | |
