Robert Badinter forgets here to speak about Jean-Paul Martin, in 1943 Director of Cabinet of the Director General of the National Police Henri Cado, right arm of René Bousquet, secretary general of the police. Jean-Paul Martin made the link between Bousquet and "La Résistance" and Mitterrand benefited (Pierre Péan,
a French youth , pp. 313-318). Later Jean-Paul Martin was deputy director of François Mitterrand, when he was appointed Minister of the Interior, then Minister of Justice. Bousquet and Martin are invited by Mitterrand at
his family residence of Latché .