"Socrates, Jesus, Gallielo, Calas, Dreyfus — these trials which tarnished past centuries have left a trail of indignation and scandal. In our times, there were the Stalinist trials, where the accused protested and the accusers executed. The Rajk trials, the first held after the war, took place in Budapest in 1949. This juridicial masquerade is the most perverse of all.

Roger Stéphane (1919-1994) is the author of Portrait de l'aventurier, André Malraux, entretiens et précisions, Autour de Montaigne, and Tout est bien.