Mis and Thiennot: false innocents, real culprits?

Pcould we manufacture innocent people? For lawyer Gilles Antonowicz and his co-author Isabelle Martin, the answer is yes, and this is what they intend to demonstrate by analyzing the legal novel by Raymond Mis and Gabriel Thiennot, two hunters accused in 1946 of the crime of a game warden and sentenced to fifteen years of forced labor, but who always presented themselves as the victims of a miscarriage of justice against a backdrop of political machination. Six requests for revision of their judgment were presented to the courts, without success. A seventh application is due in March. So, Mis and Thiennot, real culprits?

The facts first. On December 29, 1946, the last day of the hunting season, Louis Boistard disappeared in Brenne (Indre). In his thirties, this father of two…