A Man of His Time

September 1940: the Pétain regime is taking hold. Henri Marre, 49, hoping to find the place he deserves in the new regime, arrives in Vichy with no money and no contacts, carrying in his suitcase Notre Salut — the manuscript of a political treatise he authored himself, in which he defends patriotic convictions and his own methods as an engineer. He wanted to save France from collapse. Or was it himself he wanted to save?