A Man of His Time

FR
Septembre 1940, le régime de Pétain se met en place. Henri Marre, 49 ans, débarque à Vichy sans le sou, sans contact, loin de sa femme et ses enfants. Il voit dans la nouvelle administration l’opportunité de trouver enfin la place qu’il mérite. Dans sa valise, son traité politique édité à compte d’auteur, Notre Salut. Son credo : « gagner en efficacité » pour relever la France de la débâcle. Mais peut-être qu’Henri cherche avant tout à fuir sa propre débâcle.

EN
September 1940. Henri Marre arrives alone in Vichy as the authoritarian regime settles in. Broke, estranged from his family, and carrying copies of his self-published manifesto Notre Salut (Our Salvation), the 49-year-old is determined to secure what he believes is his rightful place in the new administration. In his writing, Henri sets out his patriotic convictions and his engineer’s methodology: efficiency above all. Claiming he wants to help save France after defeat, he does whatever is required to remain useful, serving the machinery of the new order with increasing skill. But he may be pursuing something more urgent: escape from his own ruin