 Chief prosecutor for Paris Maurice Rolland joined the Lyon Commission in 1943.Charles de Gaulle leaned to leave the post-war purification to "ad hoc" decisions of the judges, relying solely on the 1939 statute that punished treason with death.Meetings of the Consultative Assembly, which convened beginning on January 11, 1944, persuaded de Gaulle that "containing vengeance" would be more difficult than he thought.