The Trotsky Mystery -- Two gendarmes entering the villa "Ker Monique" with the explusion order. Hiding in forest villa near Paris, the villa "Ker Monique" at Barbizon, a village in the beautiful ***** forest, the refuge for nine months PF Leon Trotsky with Exiles Russian Communist Leader, was soon beseiged by Newspapermen and photographers when it was discovered on Sunday, April 15th., that he had been living there. Trotsky is to leave France under an explusion order, and a large crowd watched the final preparations for departure. April 19, 1934. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).