Raymond de Geouffre de la Pradelle

Before the Second World War, he defended members of the Cagoule then, after the war, his uncle Pierre, municipal councilor, lawyer and magistrate, prosecuted at the Liberation for having been an investigating judge under the Regime of Vichy.

In 1949, responsible for defending German soldiers prosecuted before French courts, he asked Henri Donnedieu de Vabres for clarification on the legality of the Nuremberg trials.[2] He then sat, within the Allied High Commission, on the steering committee of the Association for the Safeguarding of French Assets and Interests Abroad (ASBIFE), alongside representatives of firms such as Saint-Gobain, Schlumberger, Société Alsatian company in mechanical construction, the rubber, petroleum, chemical, mechanical and electrical construction, textile and food sectors, including five champagne houses.[3]

On September 27, 1956, he wondered if Egypt violated international law during the Suez Crisis.[4] In 1959, in Le Monde, he refused any Soviet takeover of the Moon after the moon landing of Luna 2.[5] In 1960, in a column in Le Figaro concerning Adolf Eichmann, he expressed the opinion that "no text allows to give jurisdiction to the State of Israel” to trial the Nazi criminal, the German courts being, according to him, “solely competent to trial Eichmann”:[6]

He defends Holocaust denier Paul Rassinier,[7] whom he describes as "sick with the truth".[8] In 1962, he defended four diplomats: André Mattei, Jean-Paul Bellivier, Henri Mouton, and André Miquel accused of espionage by the government of Gamal Abdel Nasser[9] whom he freed after the intervention of Hassan II, the King of Morocco and Henri, the Count of Paris.[10] On May 26, 1967, he wondered about the legal status of the Gulf of Aqaba on the eve of the Six-Day War.[11]

He defended, in 1975, Patrick de Ribemont, alleged sponsor, according to Michel Poniatowski, of the assassination of Prince Jean de Broglie, and, this time, condemned France by the ECHR, on February 10, 1995, and August 7, 1996[12] [insufficient source].

In 1978, he defended the fascist publisher, Fernand Sorlot, against the LICA, which accused him of having published Mein Kampf. According to him, Adolf Hitler's book is a historical document, which must, as such, be freely available.[13] On October 22, 1981, defender of the former militiaman, Paul Touvier, since June 1952, accused of crimes against humanity, he notes his "evasion" of his responsibilities and his "manifest cowardice", preferring to the wisdom of a "fair and risk-free fight", unleash the demons he intends to "play into" and perpetuate "the deplorable spectacle of a man who uses his children as a shield".[14] In 1981, he defends Jean Bedel Bokassa[15] after being worried for having received "blanks-seings" whose use was "contrary to his ethical principles",[16] the socialists taking an interest the Diamond Affair through Roland Dumas.

On August 10, 1982, Geouffre de La Pradelle recalls, after the Israeli military intervention in Lebanon in 1982, the case law prohibiting the bombing of buildings and civilian populations.[17] That same year, his son, Géraud, is a member of the International Commission to enquire into reported violations of International Law by Israel during its invasion of the Lebanon with Seán MacBride, Richard Falk, Kader Asmal, concluding "the government of Israel has committed acts of aggression contrary to international law", and published in 1983 under the title Israel in Lebanon.[18]

On March 25, 1983, in La Gazette du Palais, he described the nazi criminal Klaus Barbie as a “minor” or “ordinary” criminal[19][20][21] then in 1984, in the National-Zeitung, Rudolf Hess as “an expiatory victim, badly chosen”. In 1986, he represented Laurence de Cambronne, on appeal, the widow of Marc Gilbert, founder of the first French television talk show, Italiques, having expressed in her will only a "wish that remained in the realm of pious hope".[22] He appears in a case of law used by Maurice Papon, in 2001, accused of crime against humanity.[23]

• La monarchie, Éditions internationales, 1944
• L'affaire d'Ascq, Éditions internationales, 1949
• Le problème de la Silésie et le droit, Éditions internationales, 1958
• Aux frontières de l'injustice, Albin Michel, 1979

• Le sionisme contre Israël, de Nathan Weinstock, 1969
• Des hommes libres : histoires extraordinaires de l'histoire, de Jean-Pierre Allali, Haim Musicant, 1986
• La monarchie aujourd'hui, de Pierre Pujo, 1988
• Bokassa Ier un empereur français, de Stephen Smith, Géraldine Faes, 2000
• Dark Age: The Political Odys, de Brian Titley, 2002
• Le Théâtre de Satan : décadence du droit, partialité des juges, d'Éric Delcroix, Paris, L'Æncre, 2002.
• Les entreprises françaises face à l’Allemagne de 1945 à la fin des années 60, de Jean-François Eck, 2013
• Paul Touvier et l'Église: Rapport de la commission, de René Rémond, 2014
• Comment l'idée vint à M. Rassinier: Naissance du révisionnisme, de Florent Brayard, 2014
• L'Affaire Touvier: Quand les archives s'ouvrent, de Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon, 2016
• Nobility and patrimony in modern France, d'Elizabeth C. Macknight, 2018