Darnand le bourreau français #3

The third and concluding volume of Bedouel and Perna's biographical trilogy about Joseph Darnand — the notorious French collaborator who headed the Milice — arrives with a cover that speaks volumes: a handcuffed man in civilian clothes is escorted by a uniformed French soldier through a shadowed, wooded setting, conveying the weight of postwar reckoning. Rue de Sèvres rounds out this unflinching 2019 series with the quiet intensity that has defined the whole project. For readers drawn to serious historical bande dessinée, this finale promises a sober and carefully crafted portrait of one of the darkest chapters in French wartime history.