Note 1:

"He, too [like his uncle, Henri de Man], protested against the Jewish invasion: 'One cannot entertain much hope for the future of our civilization if it has let itself be invaded without resistance by a foreign force.' He, too, thought that the continent should be purged of the 'Semitic interference' that was to be found 'in all aspects of European life.' The 'Jewish spirit,' according to him, was a virus that threatened European integrity; the deportation of the Jews outside Europe would be a natural and legitimate measure of protection."

Note 2:

"Considered in their context, de Man's youthful writings appear to be extremely banal. Many other intellectuals and civil servants went further along the same lines and did things far worse, but their writings never prevented them from making a great career in the postwar period. They became part of the intellectual and political establishment, the friends of princes and the counselors of the mighty. Georges Albertini, for example, one of the great names of collaborationism, the secretary general of Marcel Deat's fascist party, enjoyed an extraordinary influence under the Fourth Republic; and eventually he became a prominent member of Pompidou's entourage. Similarly, Jean Jardin, Pierre Laval's close associate and his Cabinet chief of staff, rose to become the éminence grise behind some of the most powerful French politicians of the '50s and the '60s. The super-collaborators Marcel Jouhandeau, a notorious and vicious anti-Semite, and Jacques Chardonne, the author of vitriolic articles in 1940, were propelled soon after the Liberation to the forefront of the Parisian literary scene.

"What would remain of the Académie Française if it were to be purged of all its members who had made anti-Semitic statements? What would be left of the universities, the press, the arts, the theater, the cinema, if all those who had sung the glories of the National Revolution or worse were removed? In this sense, Jacques Derrida's feeling of injustice in the face of the storm surrounding his dead friend is not entirely unjustified."