However, in the case of Jamet, who had mitigating factors in his favour -- his integral pacifism well before the war, the support of his maitre Alain, his leftist background and his lack of financial opportunism as well as his six children -- what proved decisive was his symbolic role as a 'prof
aggrege': 'Quand on est prof
aggrege et qu'on ecrit dans les journaux, on doit penser aux consequences possibles de ce qu'on ecrit.'[98] Jamet received the maximum penalty: seven years hard labour, indignite nationale, and expulsion from teaching even in non-state-run establishments.[99]