had made in a local textile firm. Others were illegal – like a scam for creaming off the profits from the works canteen of a bank in Poitiers. Several more were closely connected with the black market.
In February 1943, de Baissac, the former film publicist, began to indulge in some of his own extracurricular business with his new Resistance partner, setting up a small film distribution company, Sélections Cinématographiques du Sud-Ouest, in a narrow backstreet of Bordeaux. The company secretary was one of Grandclément’s close friends, whose mistress was the company clerk. In due course de Baissac and Grandclément expanded their business by buying a cinema in Toulouse, no doubt making use of de Baissac’s pre-war experience – and probably contacts – in the French movie business.
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