Longlisted for the Prix Goncourt 2011 Described as 'one of the most significant novels of this year' by L'Express, Monsieur Le Commandant is the story of French Academician and Nazi sympathiser Paul-Jean Husson, who writes a letter to his local SS officer in 1942 with shocking consequences. 'The story of France's anti-Semitism is one much told by historians: it has seldom been written about so powerfully...