Alexandre du Chayla

'''Count Armand Alexandre de Blanquet du Chayla''' (25 March 1885 – 1945) was a French nobleman who converted to Russian Orthodoxy. He is chiefly remembered for giving crucial evidence and/or testimony for the prosecution at the Berne Trial in 1935 against the notorious Protocols of Zion.

Du Chayla had been a journalist at the time of the 1913 blood-libel trial of Mendel Beilis and had written in support of the accusation.<ref name=Hagemeister>{{cite book | author = Michael Hagemeister | title = The Perennial Conspiracy Theory | publisher = Routledge | place = London and New York | year = 2022 | pages = 25}}</ref> At Berne he insisted on payment of 4,000 Swiss francs for his testimony, which the plaintiffs found difficulty raising.<ref name=Hagemeister/> Michael Hagemeister wrote that du Chayla's testimony was full of factual errors and inconsistencies, but unfortunately still taints the historiography of the Protocols.<ref name=Hagemeister/>

==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite book | author = Norman Cohn | title = Warrant for Genocide | place = London | publisher = Serif | year = 1967 | isbn = 1897959257 | pages = 93, 94–5, 97 ''et seq.'', 105, 128, 244}}

==See also== *Berne Trial *Henryk Baran *Protocols of Zion

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