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 | | In recent years, debate about prisons in the United States has focused on the pros and cons of the privatization of prisons. | | | Spending time in a federal prison in the U.S. is sometimes referred to as visiting "Club Fed". | | | While privatized prisons have only a short history, inmates in state- and federal-run prisons also undertake active employment in prison for low pay. |
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| | Prison - LegalOwl |
| | Individuals may also be committed to prison by a court before a trial, verdict or sentence, generally because the court determines that there is a risk to society or a risk of absconding prior to a trial; such pre-trial imprisonment is known as remand. | | | Prisons conventionally are institutions authorized by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war. | | | Prisons are often rated by the degree of security, ranging from minimum security (used mainly for nonviolent offenders such as those guilty of fraud) through to maximum security and super-maximum or supermax (often used for those who have committed crimes while imprisoned). |
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| | Report from Lars |
| | Their motto was that the new law was only to convict prisoners, not to clear them out. | | | The law forces all new prisoners to give their DNA, those who refuse will be fined with 7,000 euro and an additional 6 months prison time. | | | Ivara is one of the victims of the crazy law that sends those from oversea, who have a long term sentence, to the French mainland to do half of the time in a French prison. |
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http://members.tripod.com/freebarry2/id26.htm
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| | RAMIREZ SANCHEZ v. FRANCE |
| | The Court noted that a prisoner's exclusion from the prison environment did not in itself constitute a form of inhuman treatment. | | | In that connection, the Court noted that the Conseil d'Etat had amended its position in that area in July 2003 by accepting that a decision to place a prisoner in solitary confinement could be referred to the administrative courts. | | | In a judgment of 25 November 1998, the court dismissed his application, pointing out that the measure was an internal one which was not eligible for referral to the administrative courts. |
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| | SOE F Section timeline: Encyclopedia topic |
| | Brian Stonehouse (Brian Stonehouse: more facts about this subject) was transferred to Fresnes prison (Fresnes prison: fresnes prison (maison darrêt de fresnes) is the largest prison in france, located... | | | [follow hyperlink for more...]) was transferred from Fresnes prison (Fresnes prison: fresnes prison (maison darrêt de fresnes) is the largest prison in france, located... | | | [follow hyperlink for more...]) was transferred from Dijon to Fresnes prison (Fresnes prison: fresnes prison (maison darrêt de fresnes) is the largest prison in france, located... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/soe_f_section_timeline2
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| | As Poissy Prison did not have any arrangements for permanent medical assistance, he proposed that the applicant be transferred to a prison in Paris, where a doctor was in attendance day and night and where he would have a cell to himself. | | | The judicial procedures introduced by the laws of 15 June 2000 and 4 March 2002 were capable of providing sufficient guarantees to ensure the protection of prisoners’ health and well-being, which States had to reconcile with the legitimate requirements of a custodial sentence. | | | For example, under the Law of 15 June 2000 a prisoner’s health could be taken into account in a decision to grant parole where the prisoner had “to undergo treatment”. |
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http://www.coe.int/T/d/Kommunikation_und_politische_Forschung/Presse_und_Online_Info/Presseinfos/P2004/20040115_Matencio_Frankr.asp
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| | Varifrank: Hello Amnesty International? |
| | The government's failure to provide the prisoners with humane conditions and the punitive measures taken against them in prison represent additional layers of punishment for their "crimes" that, in several instances, rise to the level of torture. | | | The Prison Reform Trust study is based on the Prison Service's own data for England and Wales published last month. | | | The prison population in Italy stands at about 56,000, one-third more than capacity, according to Justice Ministry figures. |
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http://varifrank.com/archives/2005/05/hello_amnesty_i_1.php
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| | New penal legislation was also announced, aimed at clarifying the meaning of sentences - particularly prison sentences - as well as the rights and obligations of detainees, staff responsibilities, the organisation of the public prison system and the external control of prisons. | | | However, the report acknowledges the efforts made by the government on behalf of the prison system and notes the improvements that have taken place in the health care units of the prisons. | | | The government noted, with respect to the recommendation concerning forced hospitalisation, that the provision allowing such decisions to be made on the sole basis of notoriété publique is no longer applicable and that a detailed medical certificate is always demanded by the authorities in cases of involuntary institutionalisation. |
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| | Jacques' liberation from Fresnes prison may have been precipitated by an appeal made by a German army officer in Quimper. | | | At that time the officer was a tenant in the home of Marie Mourlet, and due to her persuasion wrote a letter to prison officials on behalf of Jacques. | | | Donan Joseph [his religious name], civil prisoner from Quimper" |
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| | 'Carlos the Jackal' quits food |
| | He is imprisoned at a high-security prison in Fresnes, a southern suburb of Paris. | | | "He is imprisoned at a high-security prison in Fresnes, a southern suburb of France" | | | authorities' refusal to let him access his prison bank account for food |
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| | CBSNews.com: Print This Story |
| | The Court of Cassation ruled Thursday that Papon lost his right of appeal by failing to report to prison as required before Thursday's hearing. | | | Under French law, the court ruling automatically confirms the conviction. | | | Papon, brought to Fresnes prison Friday night, was greeted with "boos" from other prisoners. |
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| | BARRY'S STORY |
| | Fresnes is a so called "transit prison" from where long term prisoners are sent to permanent prisons in France. | | | Visits are allowed every day for 2,5 hours, without giving notice in front. | | | First Barry was detained at the MAVO prison in Paris. |
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| | Political Prisoners Set To Hunger Strike! - Indymedia Ireland |
| | Following the instructions of one of the proceeding judges, Jean-Louis Brugière, who has shown a special hatred against us, the public prosecutor refused our petition and asked the Tribunal to punish, it is to say to criminalize a right that assists all the detainees: The Right To Keep Silent. | | | Please send letters or postcards of support and solidarity to them individually at: Maison d'Arret Fresnes - 3, Allee des Thuyas — 94261 FRESNES - FRANCE | | | Please send letter or post card of support and solidarity to them individually at: Maison d'Arret Fleury Merogis - 9, Av. |
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| | "IB" ruling expected in Paris on Tuesday |
| | Malian Hamidou Diabate, one of the three lawyers defending the former warrant sergeant of the Ivorian army, argued before the three Court of Appeal judges that there was no need to detain their client in prison. | | | Paris, France (PANA) - A criminal division of the Paris Court of Appeal will make a ruling on Tuesday on a petition to release Ivorian military man Ibrahim Coulibaly who is being held in Fresnes Prison in Paris, one of his lawyers told PANA. | | | An Appeal Court judge rejected the first petition for his release recently. |
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http://www.panapress.com/freenews.asp?code=eng012117&dte=14/09/2003
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| | University of Minnesota Human Rights Library |
| | She adds that she was subjected to 16 hours of questioning and continuous violence, and held in custody without contact with her lawyer or her family for more than five days before being brought before a judge. | | | Having taken into account all information made available to it by the complainant, her counsel and the State party, | | | Similarly, she did not during her detention take any steps to seek admission to another country, although she was aware of the fact that she had been banned from French territory under a judicial decision and that on leaving prison she would be liable to be sent back to Spain. |
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http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cat/decisions/194-2001.html
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| | Pierre Plantard's Criminal Convictions - A Chronology |
| | In France, criminal convictions become amnestied and so therefore any publicity of any person’s past crimes automatically constitutes defamation there – which is why French authors cannot refer to Plantard’s criminal convictions either in their respective publications or on filmed television interviews. | | | Pierre Plantard in prison (see entry for 1956). | | | It is well known that Pierre Plantard spent time in prison during the 1940s and the 1950s – the evidence for this can be found in the Prefectures of Police at Paris and Saint Julien-en-Genevois (where the Priory of Sion was originally formed in 1956). |
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| | SOE F Section timeline - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia |
| | Brian Stonehouse was transferred to Fresnes prison in Paris | | | John Starr was transferred from Dijon to Fresnes prison. | | | Lilian Rolfe was arrested in Nargis and taken to Fresnes prison. |
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| | Fresnes Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It has the reputation of being the harshest French jail. | | | Paul Touvier would die at Fresnes prison hospital during his incarceration for war crimes and automobile industrialist, Louis Renault, arrested for collaborating with the Nazis, died there in 1944 under what some call questionable circumstances. | | | Fresnes Prison (Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes) is the second largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne near the city of Paris. |
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| | Amazing Prison Escape In France |
| | As a consequence you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the contents of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presses. | | | Ferrara, 29 -- who was sentenced in January to eight years in prison for two bank hold-ups committed in 1997 -- fled with his accomplices in a waiting car, which police believe had been stolen and fitted with false license plates. | | | A group of at least four men in police uniform attacked the prison in Fresnes, south of Paris, to free Antonio Ferrara, an Italian national convicted of armed robbery who had already escaped from jail once. |
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| | Four escape from prison on French island of Corsica |
| | In October, the state secretary for justice ministry property, Pierre Bedier, said during a visit to Ajaccio that the jail was "ancient and cramped", promising a new prison would be built on the island in the next five years. | | | Prisoners have escaped from French jails on at least five separate occasions this year, much to the chagrin of the center-right government, which has made the fight against crime a top priority since taking office in 2002. | | | In March, a gang used rocket launchers and heavy weapons to blow open the outer doors of a prison in Fresnes, south of Paris, freeing an Italian national convicted of armed robbery who had escaped from a French prison once before. |
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| | Solidarity Message With Hunger Strikers - Indymedia Ireland |
| | Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. | | | End to the show Trial and a return to Justice. | | | We are deeply saddened that once again Political Prisoners are forced to Fast to the death in an attempt to achieve justice and humanitarian treatment from the French Government that has incarcerated them in the first place. |
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| | BBC News EUROPE French jail hostages released |
| | The release came after negotiations between the prisoners and officials. | | | Two prison guards held hostage at a prison near Paris have been released, nearly 24 hours after being taken hostage. | | | Its pilot, taken hostage by the accomplices, had been freed. |
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| | SAVE A LIFE - Foreign Prisoners Support Service |
| | All information is © Copyright 1997 - 2003 'Foreign Prisoner Support Service' unless stated otherwise - | | | Carlos was convicted to life in prison in 1997 for a triple murder committed in the French capital in 1975, but he faces fresh trials for other crimes that are being investigated. | | | SAVE A LIFE - Foreign Prisoners Support Service |
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| | TSJ.org - Le Sillon - The Movement That Never Was |
| | He assumed the identity of Lescure when discussing imprisonment in Fresnes. | | | Immediately one has to wonder what state was the prison of Fresnes if people could travel to and fro at will? | | | He was placed in cell # 32 on August 2, in Prison Saint-Michel de Toulouse. |
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| | Pierre Plantard Profile |
| | The Prieuré de Sion terminated sometime after October 1956, following Plantard’s conviction for ‘détournement de mineurs’ (reportedly serving a 12 month prison sentence between 1956-1957). | | | Four months in Fresnes Prison during the 1940s. | | | Six months between 1953-1954 for abuse of trust in relation to offences against property. |
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| | GrandPrix.com > Features > Historical > Jean-Pierre Wimille: The man who would have been champion... |
| | Terms of Use, Copyright, and Privacy Policy Copyright 1988-2006, The Motorsport Company | | | He was still in uniform on September 9, 1945 when the French held the first post-war motor race in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. | | | Later a memorial was erected to Wimille at the Porte Dauphine, beside the hairpin on the Bois de Boulogne circuit, where he won the Prisoners Cup in 1945 and not very far from the Gestapo headquarters on the Avenue Foch, where he had nearly been a prisoner. |
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| | Fresne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Fresnes, in the Val-de-Marne département, the site of the Fresnes Prison | | | Fresne, Le Fresne, Fresnes, Le Fresnes and Fresné is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. |
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| | Fresnes, Val-de-Marne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Fresnes is served by no station of the Paris Métro, RER, or suburban rail network. | | | Fresnes is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. | | | The closest station to Fresnes is Antony station on Paris RER line B. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnes,_Val-de-Marne
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| | CNN.com - French prison hostages freed - May 28, 2001 |
| | Police said two prisoners, serving jail terms for murder and armed robbery, initially seized three guards at the high-security Fresnes prison, south of Paris. | | | Both armed prisoners gave themselves up after releasing the hostages. | | | CNN.com - French prison hostages freed - May 28, 2001 |
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| | Euskal Herria Journal A Basque Journal |
| | PEIO MARINELARENA, 32, died from AIDS at the Fresnes Prison (France). | | | According to authorities, the prison doctor tried to revive him without success --a "suicide" according to the government. | | | JUAN JOSE CRESPO GALENDE, 27, died at the Herrera de la Mancha Prison (Spain) after 97 days in hunger-strike. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Histoire de Fresnes, prison "moderne": Books |
| | Prisons - France - Fresnes (Val-de-Marne) - Histoire | | | Look for books like Histoire de Fresnes, prison "moderne" by subject: | | | Top of Page : Histoire de Fresnes, prison "moderne" |
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| | Agence France Presse French: Prison: vastes opérations de fouilles à Fresnes et aux Baumettes@ HighBeam ... |
| | Deux vastes oprations de fouilles ont t lances vendredi l'aube dans les maisons d'arrt de Fresnes (Val-de-Marne) et des Baumettes Marseille, a annonc le ministre de la Justice, 48 heures aprs une spectaculaire vasion Fresnes. | | | Un mirador de la prison de Fresnes (Val-dd-Marne) | | | Deux units de CRS (160 hommes) ont t mobilises Fresnes pour cette... |
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| | IMD 2001 Museums: building community |
| | The initiative resulted in collaboration between Fresnes town and the prison administration in organising events to mark the prison's centenary. | | | This is why we must now speak out, stating clearly that there is another way, that endogenous, self-managed community development is not a Utopia, but a possibility that has already become reality in some places. | | | As the town of Fresnes has the largest prison in France, a large percentage of the population depends on this particular establishment. |
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| | Pierre Plantard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The German authorities had refused permission for Plantard to form the French National Renewal, and when Plantard disregarded another prohibition in the case of the Alpha Galates it earned him a four-month sentence in Fresnes Prison. | | | Pierre Plantard at the time was working as a draughtsman for a company in the town of Annemasse, in the Haute-Savoie département of south-east France. |
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| | TCM Breaking News - 2001/05/28: Guards freed in prison hostage drama |
| | Prisoners were returned to their cells by 2am, prison officials said. | | | One of two armed prisoners holding the guards at the high-security Fresnes prison, south of Paris, surrendered, according to police. | | | At one point last night, there were fears of a massive riot among the 1,800 prisoners at Fresnes, some 300 of whom refused at one point to return to their cells and called for a revolt. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Jail escape forces French rethink |
| | One key ETA suspect escaped from a high-security prison after trading places with his brother during a visit. | | | French Justice Minister Dominique Perben said the methods being used were posing huge problems for the authorities. | | | The French Government is being forced to rethink its prison security policy after the most spectacular breakout yet in a series of daring escapes from French jails. |
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| | SOE Women in Struthof |
| | She was taken to Gestapo Headquarters at the Avenue Foch where she spent two weeks under interrogation before being transferred to Fresnes prison. | | | Vera joined the Inventor Network and worked as a courier in and around Paris, but while meeting another agent in a café, Chez Mas in the Place des Ternes, she was arrested by the Gestapo on the 30th October 1943 and also taken to Fresnes prison. | | | Andree and three other members of the Prosper Network were captured on the night of the 23rd June 1943 in Paris. |
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| | PARIS -- A dangerous gangster sprung from prison in a military-style commando operation may be linked to a Corsican prisoner freed in a similar escape last week, according to France's justice minister, Dominique Perben. | | | News of the escape dominated headlines yesterday and triggered a debate over the security of French prisons. | | | Perben said France was planning to build two high-security prisons far removed from the Paris area. |
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| | Berria.info |
| | She is in bed in a room resembling a prison cell, which is where her lawyer saw her. | | | Marixol Iparragirre ended her hunger and thirst strike the day before yesterday when she was admitted to Fresnes hospital. | | | She will stay in Fresnes prison hospital for a few days while she regains her strength. |
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| | Louis Renault (industrialist) at AllExperts |
| | Consequently, when France was liberated in 1944, he was arrested for industrial collaboration with Nazi Germany, and died while awaiting trial in Fresnes Prison. | | | During the Nazi occupation of France during the Second World War, the Renault company (like all French companies) was put under the total control of the Germans, and Louis chose to remain. |
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| | Skoazell-Vreizh / Breton Aid : Christian GEORGEAULT on hunger-strike |
| | Since January 1st, 2001, Mr Christian GEORGEAULT is on hunger strike at the prison of Fresnes as taking part in a movement of the political prisoners in order to support their claims. | | | Mr Georgeault has been in detention without trial for now 8 months. | | | In a democracy, citizens are all equal in the eyes of the law. |
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| | Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Papon is tracked to Switzerland, deported to France |
| | He was transferred to the Fresnes prison in a southern Paris suburb, where officials placed him in the prison hospital because of his heart troubles, said Jean-Marc Chauvet, the regional prison director. | | | PARIS - Maurice Papon's desperate bid to escape a 10-year prison sentence for deporting French Jews to a Nazi death camp ended when Swiss authorities deported him Friday, after tracking him to an exclusive ski resort where he was holed up under an assumed name. | | | His capture ended the struggle for justice by relatives of some of the Jews whom Papon tracked down, arrested and sent to a French transit camp outside Bordeaux from where they were shipped to Auschwitz. |
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| | New Denunciation From Political Prisoners Currently Being Held In A French Prison | | | Yesterday the Prison Assistant Director call me to inform me that Monsieur le Procureur of the République is opposed to the prisoners regrouping as we and our lawyers demanded. | | | So, there we go, protest and mobilization, mobilization and denunciation. |
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| | 'Au Bistro' - Weekly Paris News |
| | Actually Dimitri should have mentioned it because the prison is about a stone's throw from where his monthly Friday night Deux-Chevaux club meetings are held. | | | But is this 'news?' Where you are sitting reading this, you probably don't even know where Fresnes prison is. | | | After it, the guards at Fresnes held a protest strike outside the prison - possibly to try and convince the Minister of the Interior to forbid escape attempts with helicopters. |
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| | The Hallowes Genealogy |
| | Odette was sent to Paris where, at the notorious Fresnes prison, she endured excruciating torments, including having her toenails pulled out (for a year after her homecoming she could not wear shoes and had to walk on her heels until several operations restored her to normal mobility). | | | Captured by the Gestapo in France and consigned after being cruelly tortured in Paris's notorious Fresnes prison, to Ravensbrück concentration camp, she emerged emaciated, weak and gravely ill at the end of the war. | | | But in the years that followed, her undiminished mental and moral energy, combined with a complete absence of bitterness towards her tormentors and the nation that had spawned them, became a beacon to others who had suffered disfigurement, pain or bereavement. |
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| | The only release for those souls encased in the material prison of the body was through the Cathar ceremony of the consolamentum, which was the means by which they could return to their guardian spirits in Heaven." | | | During WWII, Plantard spent four months in Fresnes prison after he tried to form an organisation called French National Renewal(http://priory-of-sion.com/psp/id84.html). | | | Pierre Plantard de St-Clair (Plantard added the "de St-Clair" onto his name in order to impress people with his alleged aristocratic pedigree) began his career in wartime France, where he edited a journal entitled Vaincre. |
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