Abel Bonnard, 77-year-old French poet, was placed on trial here today before the High Court of Justice on charges of collaborating with the Nazis during World War II.
M. Bonnard, a former member of the French Academy, was expelled from the Academy in 1944. Minister of Education in the pro-Hitler Vichy Government of France, he fled to Spain just before the liberation of France from Nazi rule in 1944. In absentia, he was tried for collaborationism and sentenced to death. Two years ago, he returned to France voluntarily, was imprisoned for a brief period, then freed because of his alleged poor health.
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