sentences:  He helped some war prisoners to escape, and worked to lighten the economic toll of the Nazi occupation on the Marne department.In 1942, Admiral François Darlan offered him the Ministry of Agriculture, which Bousquet twice refused.In April 1942, as the "Schutzstaffel" (SS) was taking over security duties in the Occupied Zone, Pierre Laval appointed Bousquet general secretary to Police.