Desmond Guillont (Napoleon's World)

Desmond Jean-Marie Guillont (June 1, 1894 - May 4, 1944) was a French politician and bureaucrat best known for his high ranking positions within the Edmondian regime during the French Civil War. He served, between 1930 and 1944, as the Deputy Minister of the Interior, Minister of the Interior, Undersecretary of Information at the State Ministry, and as Chief of Staff and chief advisor to State Minister Francois Baptiste after 1939. He fled Paris in 1943 with Baptiste and was active in the guerilla campaigns in late 1943 and early 1944. He was captured at Torello in May 1944 and executed on May 4, along with Baptiste, in the early morning by a gang of mostly unidentified soldiers.