Fernand de Brinon
French lawyer, politician
Died when: 61 years 232 days (739 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Fernand de Brinon, Marquis de Brinon (French pronunciation: ?[fe?n?~ d? b?in?~]; 26 August 1885 – 15 April 1947) was a French lawyer and journalist who was one of the architects of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II.
He claimed to have had five private talks with Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1937.Brinon was a high official of the collaborationist Vichy regime.
During the liberation of France in 1944, remnants of the Vichy leadership fled into exile, where Brinon was selected as president of the rump government in exile.
After the war was over, he was tried in France for war crimes, found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed.
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