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René Floriot
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20 Oct 1902
† 22 Dec 1975
Paris, France
Biography
René Edmond Floriot (20 October 1902, Paris – 22 December 1975, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French lawyer. Son of a Paris municipal clerk, Floriot studied law at the Sorbonne, started practicing before his 21st birthday. In the 1930s, he prospered by winning divorces for the wealthy in a week, though the cumbersome process usually takes two to three years in France. After the war, he unabashedly defended war criminals and collaborators. Floriot drove "a research staff of six lawyers, known as "l'...
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René Edmond Floriot
