When Antone de Saint-Exupéry was about to leave Vichy to go to America
during WW2 he had to go to Paris to collect some papers. He accepted a
ride (his last visit to Paris) from Drieu La Rochelle not know he was
one of the most notorious literary collaborators. Drieu La Rochelle was
so compromised by his association with the fascists that he committed
suicide rather than submit to the rough justice being handed out to
collaborators at the end of the war.