Talk:Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle

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Merger proposal
This has been pending for months. Any reason not to do it? PubliusFL (talk) 16:26, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Adding References
Does anyone have access to the sources cited in the Sources section of the article? It would be great if someone could go to the referred pages and add citations within the article at the appropriate points: Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, New York: Henry Holt, 2002. pp251-52 Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years: 1940-1944, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. pp447-448 Douglas Porch, The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. pp.361-63 Ethdhelwen (talk) 08:55, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Rehabilitation?
The decision of the appeal court in 1945 was a political one, not a rehabilitation in a legal sense. de la Chapelle did not act "in the interest of liberation of France", since it had nothing to do with the liberation of France - Darlan was governing Allied occupied territory with the acquiescence of the Allied commanders.Royalcourtier (talk) 18:27, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Weapon used
I don't have a copy of 'An Army at Dawn' so I don't know what info Atkinson has, but Anthony C. Brown seems quite certain that it was a Colt Woodsman, not a Ruby. He even implies that it may have been given to Bonnier by OSS agent Carleton Coon on P268-269 of 'Wild Bill Donovan'.74.96.110.219 (talk) 14:23, 3 May 2018 (UTC)


 * [Colt Woodsman] page directly links to this one, the assassin of Admiral Darlan, saying that a Colt Woodsman was used in the assassination (with a book citation). This page says a [Ruby pistol] was used instead, with another book source. These are inconsistent. Online sources seem to lean towards the Woodsman, but I can't find a 'good' web source to use. 2601:249:4380:385D:DA1F:BB25:A67:E686 (talk) 17:10, 24 October 2018 (UTC)