Gaston Marie Léon Cabannes (12 August 1882–9 November 1950) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 politician.

Gaston Cabannes was born in Agen

Agen

Agen is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in Aquitaine in south-western France. It lies on the river Garonne southeast of Bordeaux. It is the capital of the department.-Economy:The town has a higher level of unemployment than the national average...

. His parents worked in the garment industry and he himself worked as a tailor in Bordeaux

Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

. An active trade unionist and a member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) (French socialist party), Cabannes first stood for election in 1924 on the list of the Cartel des Gauches

Cartel des Gauches

The Cartel des gauches was the name of the governmental alliance between the Radical-Socialist Party and the socialist French Section of the Workers' International after World War I , which lasted until the end of the Popular Front . The Cartel des gauches twice won general elections, in 1924 and...

 but was unsuccessful. He was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies representing Bordeaux in the general election of 1932 and was re-elected in 1936. In 1935 he was elected mayor of Floirac.

In July 1940 during the Second World War he was one of the 80 member of the French parliament

The Vichy 80

The Vichy 80 were a group of elected French parliamentarians who, on 10 July 1940, voted against the constitutional change that dissolved the Third Republic and established an authoritarian regime known as Vichy France....

 who voted against granting extraordinary powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain

Philippe Pétain

Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...

. As a consequence the Vichy régime

Vichy France

Vichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...

 dismissed him as mayor of Floirac.

He served as a member of the Haute Cour de justice, a special criminal court which is formed by the Court of Cassation

Court of Cassation (France)

The French Supreme Court of Judicature is France's court of last resort having jurisdiction over all matters triable in the judicial stream but only scope of review to determine a miscarriage of justice or certify a question of law based solely on points of law...

 to try cases of high treason

High treason

High treason is criminal disloyalty to one's government. Participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state are perhaps...

, during the épuration légale

Épuration légale

The Épuration légale was the wave of official trials that followed the Liberation of France and the fall of the Vichy Regime...

which followed the end of the war.

He died at Bordeaux in 1950 aged 68.

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