The Sacha Guitry Affair

On the morning of 23 August 1944 Sacha Guitry was arrested at his Paris appartment as the French capital was being liberated Accused of collaboration with the enemy the author of successful plays My Father was Right Lets Make a Dream Quadrille and director of the theatre of the Madeleine was to remain captive for sixty days His detention took from from the depot to the Vel dhiv then Drancy and finally Fresnes Prison