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Tribune  'Bad' blood  A twist of fate put author Carmen Callil
on the trail of a Vichy France thug  November 5, 2006  Carmen
Callil's “Bad Faith” emerged from a patient-psychotherapist
relationship. The treatment began in the early 1960s, when
Callil was suicidal and in her early 20s. She undertook a
schedule of thrice-weekly visits to Dr. Anne Darquier. This went
on for seven years.  On Sept. 7, 1970, Callil rang her doctor's
doorbell for the last time. Darquier was found dead on that
date, just after her 40th birthday. Callil attended the funeral
and was surprised to hear the dead woman called by her full
name, Anne Darquier de Pellepoix. Callil did not fully grasp the
import of this until she saw Louis Darquier de Pellepoix in
Marcel Ophuls' Holocaust documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity.”
Her doctor's father had been a minor but