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André Léon Blum (9 April 1872 30 March 1950), was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 politician, usually identified with the moderate left, and three times the Prime Minister of France
Prime Minister of France

The Prime Minister of France in French Fifth Republic is the functional head of the government and French government ministers of France. The head of state in France is the President of the French Republic....
.

was born in the Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish community: he attended the Lycée Henri IV
Lycée Henri IV

The Lyc?e Henri-IV is a public secondary school located in Paris. Along with Lyc?e Louis-le-Grand, it is widely regarded as one of the most demanding in France....
. There he met the writer André Gide
André Gide

Andr? Paul Guillaume Gide was a France author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the Symbolism movement, to the advent of Anti-imperialism between the two World Wars....
 and published his first poems at the age of 17 in a journal they created. Blum entered the prestigious École Normale Supérieure
École Normale Supérieure

The ?cole normale sup?rieure is a France Grandes ?coles . The ENS was initially conceived during the French Revolution, and intended to provide the First French Republic with a new body of teacher, trained in the critical spirit and secular values of the the Enlightenment....
 in 1890. After graduation, he wavered between studying law and literature.






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André Léon Blum (9 April 1872 30 March 1950), was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 politician, usually identified with the moderate left, and three times the Prime Minister of France
Prime Minister of France

The Prime Minister of France in French Fifth Republic is the functional head of the government and French government ministers of France. The head of state in France is the President of the French Republic....
.

Childhood and education

Blum was born in the Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish community: he attended the Lycée Henri IV
Lycée Henri IV

The Lyc?e Henri-IV is a public secondary school located in Paris. Along with Lyc?e Louis-le-Grand, it is widely regarded as one of the most demanding in France....
. There he met the writer André Gide
André Gide

Andr? Paul Guillaume Gide was a France author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the Symbolism movement, to the advent of Anti-imperialism between the two World Wars....
 and published his first poems at the age of 17 in a journal they created. Blum entered the prestigious École Normale Supérieure
École Normale Supérieure

The ?cole normale sup?rieure is a France Grandes ?coles . The ENS was initially conceived during the French Revolution, and intended to provide the First French Republic with a new body of teacher, trained in the critical spirit and secular values of the the Enlightenment....
 in 1890. After graduation, he wavered between studying law and literature. Rather than choose between them, he decided to study both at the Sorbonne
University of Paris

The historic University of Paris first appeared in the 12th century. In 1970 it was reorganized as 13 autonomous university . The university is often referred to as the Sorbonne or La Sorbonne after the collegiate institution founded about 1257 by Robert de Sorbon....
, graduating in literature in 1890 and in law in 1894. He then worked as a government lawyer while developing a second career as a literary critic, in particular as an authority on Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
. He soon became one of France's leading literary figures.

First political experiences

While in his youth an avid reader of the works of the nationalist writer Maurice Barrès
Maurice Barrès

Maurice Barr?s was a French novelist, journalism, and Antisemitism nationalism politician and agitator. Leaning towards the far-left in his youth as a Georges Boulanger deputy, he progressively developed a theory close to Romantic nationalism and shifted to the right during the Dreyfus Affair, leading the Anti-Dreyfusards alongside Charle...
, Blum had little interest in politics until the Dreyfus Affair
Dreyfus Affair

The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal which divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian History of the Jews in France descent....
 of 1894, which had a traumatic effect on him as it did on many French Jews
History of the Jews in France

The Religions in France presently numbers around 600,000, according to the World Jewish Congress and 500,000 according to the Appel Unifi? Juif de France, and is found mainly in the metropolitan areas of Paris, Marseille, Strasbourg, Lyon, and Toulouse....
. Campaigning as a Dreyfusard brought him into contact with the socialist leader Jean Jaurès
Jean Jaurès

Jean L?on Jaur?s was a French Socialism leader. Initially an Opportunist Republican, he evolved into one of the first Social Democracy, becoming the leader, in 1902, of the French Socialist Party , which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France....
, whom he greatly admired. He began contributing to the socialist daily, L'Humanité
L'Humanité

L'Humanit? , formerly the daily newspaper linked to the French Communist Party , was founded in 1904 by Jean Jaur?s, a leader of the SFIO....
, and joined the Socialist Party
Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party is the largest left-wing politics political party in France. It replaced the French Section of the Workers' International in 1969....
, then called the SFIO. Soon he was the party's main theoretician.

In July 1914, just as the First World War
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 broke out, Jaurès
Jean Jaurès

Jean L?on Jaur?s was a French Socialism leader. Initially an Opportunist Republican, he evolved into one of the first Social Democracy, becoming the leader, in 1902, of the French Socialist Party , which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France....
 was assassinated, and Blum became more active in the Socialist party leadership. In 1919 he was chosen as chair of the party's executive committee, and was also elected to the National Assembly
French National Assembly

The France National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the French Fifth Republic. The other is the French Senate ....
 as a representative of Paris. Believing that there was no such thing as a "good dictatorship", he opposed participation in the Comintern
Comintern

The 'Comintern' was an international Communism organization founded in Moscow in March 1919. The International intended to fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the Sta...
. Therefore, in 1920, he worked to prevent a split between supporters and opponents of the Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution of 1917

The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union....
, but the radicals seceded, taking L'Humanité with them, and formed the French Communist Party
French Communist Party

The French Communist Party is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. Although its electoral support has greatly declined in recent decades, it remains the largest party in France advocating communist views, and retains a large membership and considerable influence in French politics....
.

Blum led the SFIO through the 1920s and 1930s, and was also editor of the party's new paper, Le Populaire.

The Popular Front

Blum was elected as Deputy for Narbonne
Narbonne

Narbonne is a commune in France in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon r?gion in France. It lies from Paris in the Aude d?partement in France, of which it is a sous-pr?fecture....
 in 1929, and was re-elected in 1932 and 1936. In 1933, he expelled Marcel Déat
Marcel Déat

Marcel D?at was a France Socialism until 1933, when he initiated a spin-off from the SFIO along with other right-wing 'Neosocialists'. He then founded the Collaborationist Rassemblement national populaire during the Vichy regime....
, Pierre Renaudel, and other neosocialists
Neosocialism

Neosocialism was a right-wing political trend represented in Third Republic and in History of Belgium, which included several revisionist tendencies in the SFIO ....
 from the SFIO. Political circumstances changed in 1934, when the rise of German dictator Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
 and fascist riots in Paris caused Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
 and the French Communists to change their policy. In 1935 all the parties of left and centre formed the Popular Front
Popular Front (France)

The Popular Front was an alliance of History of the Left in France movements, including the French Communist Party , the Socialist SFIO and the Radical Party , during the interwar period....
, which at the elections of June 1936 won a sweeping victory.

On 13 February 1936, shortly before becoming Prime Minister, Blum was dragged from a car and almost beaten to death by the Camelots du Roi
Camelots du Roy

The Camelots du Roi were the youth organization of the Monarchism Action fran?aise France far right movement. Created on 16 November 1908, it was closely influenced by Charles Maurras' integralism doctrine of nationalism, and was quite popular in between the two World Wars....
, a group of anti-Semites and royalists. The right-wing Action Francaise league was dissolved by the government following this incident, not long before the elections that brought Blum to power .

Blum became the first socialist and the first Jew to serve as Prime Minister of France
Prime Minister of France

The Prime Minister of France in French Fifth Republic is the functional head of the government and French government ministers of France. The head of state in France is the President of the French Republic....
. As such he was an object of particular hatred to the Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 and anti-Semitic
Anti-Semitism

Antisemitism is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews.This prejudice or hostility is usually characterized by a combination of Religion, Race , cultural and ethnic group biases....
 right, and was denounced in the National Assembly by Xavier Vallat
Xavier Vallat

Xavier Vallat , France politician, was Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in the wartime Vichy France, and was sentenced after World War II to ten years in prison for his part in the persecution of French Jews....
, a right-wing Deputy and sympathizer of the Action Française
Action Française

The Action Fran?aise is a France Monarchist counter-revolutionary movement and periodical founded by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois and whose principal ideologist was Charles Maurras....
 (later Commissioner for Jewish Affairs in the Vichy
Vichy France

Vichy France, or the Vichy regime are the common terms used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944. This government, which succeeded the French Third Republic, officially called itself the French State , in contrast with the previous designation, "French Republic." Marshal of France Philippe P?tain pro...
 wartime government), who said:
Your coming to power is undoubtedly a historic event. For the first time this old Gallo-Roman country will be governed by a Jew. I dare say out loud what the country is thinking, deep inside : it is preferable for this country to be led by a man whose origins belong to his soil... than by a cunning talmud
Talmud

The Talmud is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Halakha, Jewish ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of mainstream Judaism....
ist.


The industrial workers responded to the election of the Popular Front government by occupying their factories, confident that "the revolution" was imminent. For Blum, as a Marxist, this was an agonising moment. He did not believe that socialism could be achieved by parliamentary means. But he could not encourage the workers to launch an attempt at a revolution: he believed that the army would intervene and the workers would be massacred as they had been at the Paris Commune
Paris Commune

The Paris Commune was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 28 to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between Anarchism and Socialism, and is hailed by both as the first seizure of power by the working class....
 in 1871. He persuaded the workers to accept pay raises and go back to work.

Similarly, when the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'?tat by a group of Spanish Army generals, supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right , Carlist groups and the fascistic Falange, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of pr...
 broke out, Blum was forced to adopt a policy of neutrality rather than assist his ideological fellows, the Spanish socialists, for fear of splitting his alliance with the centrist Radicals, or even precipitating a civil war in France. But this policy strained his alliance with the Communists, who followed Soviet policy and urged all out support for the Spanish Republic
Spanish Republic

There have been two Spanish Republics:* First Spanish Republic * Second Spanish Republic Spain is not currently a republic, but a constitutional monarchy....
. The impossible dilemma caused by this issue led Blum to resign in June 1937. He was briefly Prime Minister again in March and April 1938, but was unable to establish a stable ministry.

Despite its short life, the Popular Front government passed much important legislation, including the 40-hour week, paid holidays for the workers, collective bargaining on wage claims and the nationalisation of the arms industry. Blum also passed legislation extending the rights of the Arab population of Algeria
Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
. In foreign policy, his government was divided between the traditional anti-militarism
Pacifism

Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage. Pacifism covers a spectrum of views ranging from the belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully resolved; to calls for the abolition of the institutions of the military and war; to opposition to any organization of society...
 of the French left and the urgency of the rising threat of Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
. Despite the division, the government managed to engage the greatest war effort since the First World War.

World War II

When the Germans occupied France in June 1940, Blum made no effort to leave the country, despite the extreme danger he was in as a Jew and a socialist leader. He was among the "The Vichy 80
The Vichy 80

The Vichy 80 refers to a minority group of France elected parliamentarians who, on July 10, 1940, voted against the constitutional change that dissolved the French Third Republic and established the Nazi Germany puppet state of Vichy France....
", a minority of parliamentarians that refused to grant full powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain

Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph P?tain , generally known as Philippe P?tain or Marshal P?tain , was a France general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, later Head of state of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944....
. He was arrested by the authorities in September and held until 1942, when he was put on trial in the Riom Trial
Riom Trial

The Riom Trial was an attempt by the regime of Vichy France, headed by Marshal P?tain, to prove that the leaders of the French Third Republic had been responsible for Battle of France by Germany in 1940....
 on charges of treason, for having "weakened France's defences". He used the courtroom to make a brilliant indictment of the French military and pro-German politicians like Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval

Pierre Laval was a France politician. He served four times as Prime Minister of France of the Third French Republic, thrice consecutively. Following France's Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government....
. The trial was such an embarrassment to the Vichy regime that the Germans ordered it called off.

In April 1943, the Germans deported Blum to Germany, where he was imprisoned in Buchenwald
Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camps established on the Ettersberg near Weimar, Thuringia, Germany , in July 1937, and one of the largest and first camps on German soil....
 until April 1945. He was imprisoned in the section reserved for high-ranking prisoners. As the Allied armies approached Buchenwald, he was transferred to Dachau
Dachau concentration camp

Dachau was a Nazi Germany Nazi concentration camps, and the first one opened in Germany, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria which is located in southern Germany....
, near Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, and in late April 1945, together with other notable inmates
Transport of concentration camp inmates to Tyrol

The Transport of Inmates of German Concentration Camps to Tyrol happened in late April 1945 and led to the only time such prisoners were liberated by German troops....
, to Tyrol
Tyrol

Tyrol is a region in Western Central Europe, which included the present day States of Austria of Tyrol , the Regions of Italy Trentino-Alto Adige/S?dtirol and three Comunes of the Veneto Regions of Italy ....
. In the last weeks of the war the Nazi regime gave orders that he was to be executed, but the local authorities decided not to obey them. Blum was rescued by Allied troops in May 1945. While in prison he wrote his best known work, the essay À l'échelle Humaine ("For all mankind").

His brother René, the founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra à Monte Carlo, was deported to Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany's Nazi concentration campss. Its remains are located in Poland approximately 50 kilometers west of Krak?w and 286 kilometers south of Warsaw....
 and murdered.

Post-war period

After the war, Léon Blum returned to politics, and was again briefly Prime Minister in the transitional postwar coalition government. He advocated the alliance between the center-left and the center-right parties in order to support the Fourth Republic
French Fourth Republic

The Fourth Republic was the republicanism government of France between 1946 and 1958, governed by the fourth republican Constitution of France. It was in many ways a revival of the French Third Republic, which was in place before World War II, and suffered many of the same problems....
 against the Gaullists and the Communists. He also served as an ambassador on a government loan mission to the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, and as head of the French mission to UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
. He continued to write for Le Populaire until his death at Jouy-en-Josas
Jouy-en-Josas

Jouy-en-Josas is a commune in France in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located . from the Kilometre Zero.Jouy-en-Josas is home to the prestigious HEC School of Management....
, near Paris, on 30 March 1950. The kibbutz
Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
 of Kfar Blum
Kfar Blum

Kfar Blum is a kibbutz in the Hula Valley part of the Upper Galilee in Israel. Located about 6 km southeast of the town of Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council....
 in northern Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 is named after him.

Government


First ministry (4 June 1936 - 22 June 1937)

Hashim Atassi Signing Franco Syrian Treaty 1936
*Léon Blum - President of the Council
  • Édouard Daladier
    Édouard Daladier

    ?douard Daladier was a France Radical-Socialist Party politician, and Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War....
     - Vice President of the Council and Minister of National Defense and War
  • Yvon Delbos
    Yvon Delbos

    Yvon Delbos was a France Radical Party politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Popular Front governments of L?on Blum and Camille Chautemps....
     - Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Roger Salengro - Minister of the Interior
  • Vincent Auriol
    Vincent Auriol

    Jules-Vincent Auriol was a France politician who served as the first President of France of the French Fourth Republic from 1947 to 1954. He also served as interim President of the Provisional Government from November to December 1946, making him one of only three people who were heads of state of the French Republic on two separate occasi...
     - Minister of Finance
  • Charles Spinasse
    Charles Spinasse

    Charles Spinasse was a French politician. He belonged to the SFIO.In 1938, he served as France's minister of budget....
     - Minister of National Economy
  • Jean-Baptiste Lebas - Minister of Labour
  • Marc Rucart - Minister of Justice
  • Alphonse Gasnier-Duparc - Minister of Marine
  • Pierre Cot
    Pierre Cot

    .Pierre Cot , France politician, was a leading figure in the Popular Front government of the 1930s. Born in Grenoble into a conservative Catholic family, he entered politics as an admirer of the World War I conservative leader Raymond Poincar?, but moved steadily to the left over the course of his career....
     - Minister of Air
  • Jean Zay
    Jean Zay

    Jean Zay is a French politician born in Orl?ans on 6 August 1904 and assasinated 20 June 1944 by the Milice in Molles . He was the List of Education Ministers of France from 1936 until 1939....
     - Minister of National Education
  • Albert Rivière - Minister of Pensions
  • Georges Monnet - Minister of Agriculture
  • Marius Moutet - Minister of Colonies
  • Albert Bedouce - Minister of Public Works
  • Henri Sellier - Minister of Public Health
  • Robert Jardillier - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
  • Paul Bastid - Minister of Commerce
  • Camille Chautemps
    Camille Chautemps

    Camille Chautemps was a France Radical Party politician of the French Third Republic, three times Prime Minister of France ....
     - Minister of State
  • Paul Faure
    Paul Faure

    Paul Faure may refer to:*Paul Faure *Paul Faure ...
     - Minister of State
  • Maurice Viollette
    Maurice Viollette

    Maurice Viollette was a France statesman.He was chief-of-staff for Alexandre Millerand in the Waldeck-Rousseau government in 1898, and was elected as a D?put? for Eure-et-Loir in 1902 and as mayor of Dreux from 1908–1959....
     - Minister of State
  • Léo Lagrange
    Léo Lagrange

    L?o Lagrange was a SFIO Under-Secretary of State for Sports and for the Organisation of Leisures during the Popular Front . A member of the ?claireurs de France scouting association during his youth, he joined the SFIO socialist party after the scission of the Tours congress in 1920 and wrote articles in the Populaire , the press...
     - Under-Secretary of State for the Organization of the leisure activities and sports -i.e. Minister for the Sports-


Changes:
  • 18 November 1936 - Marx Dormoy
    Marx Dormoy

    Marx Dormoy was a France Socialism politician, noted for his opposition to the far right....
     succeeds Roger Salengro as Minister of the Interior.


Second ministry (13 March - 10 April 1938)


  • Léon Blum - President of the Council and Minister of Treasury
  • Édouard Daladier
    Édouard Daladier

    ?douard Daladier was a France Radical-Socialist Party politician, and Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War....
     - Vice President of the Council and Minister of National Defense and War
  • Joseph Paul-Boncour
    Joseph Paul-Boncour

    Augustin Alfred Joseph Paul-Boncour was a French politician of the French Third Republic....
     - Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Marx Dormoy
    Marx Dormoy

    Marx Dormoy was a France Socialism politician, noted for his opposition to the far right....
     - Minister of the Interior
  • Charles Spinasse
    Charles Spinasse

    Charles Spinasse was a French politician. He belonged to the SFIO.In 1938, he served as France's minister of budget....
     - Minister of Budget
  • Albert Sérol - Minister of Labour
  • Marc Rucart - Minister of Justice
  • César Campinchi
    César Campinchi

    C?sar Campinchi was a lawyer and France statesman in the beginning of the 20th century.Campinchi was president of the Association g?n?rale des ?tudiants de Paris student organisation, a member of the Radical Socialist Party and deputy for Corsica from 1932 to 1940....
     - Minister of Military Marine
  • Guy La Chambre - Minister of Air
  • Jean Zay
    Jean Zay

    Jean Zay is a French politician born in Orl?ans on 6 August 1904 and assasinated 20 June 1944 by the Milice in Molles . He was the List of Education Ministers of France from 1936 until 1939....
     - Minister of National Education
  • Albert Rivière - Minister of Pensions
  • Georges Monnet - Minister of Agriculture
  • Marius Moutet - Minister of Colonies
  • Jules Moch
    Jules Moch

    Jules Salvador Moch was a France politician....
     - Minister of Public Works
  • Fernand Gentin - Minister of Public Health
  • Jean-Baptiste Lebas - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
  • Ludovic-Oscar Frossard
    Ludovic-Oscar Frossard

    Ludovic-Oscar Frossard was a France Socialism and Communism politician, a member of six successive French governments between 1935 and 1940....
     - Minister of Propaganda
  • Vincent Auriol
    Vincent Auriol

    Jules-Vincent Auriol was a France politician who served as the first President of France of the French Fourth Republic from 1947 to 1954. He also served as interim President of the Provisional Government from November to December 1946, making him one of only three people who were heads of state of the French Republic on two separate occasi...
     - Minister of Coordination of Services of the Presidency of the Council
  • Pierre Cot
    Pierre Cot

    .Pierre Cot , France politician, was a leading figure in the Popular Front government of the 1930s. Born in Grenoble into a conservative Catholic family, he entered politics as an admirer of the World War I conservative leader Raymond Poincar?, but moved steadily to the left over the course of his career....
     - Minister of Commerce
  • Paul Faure
    Paul Faure

    Paul Faure may refer to:*Paul Faure *Paul Faure ...
     - Minister of State
  • Théodore Steeg
    Théodore Steeg

    Th?odore Steeg was a French politician of the French Third Republic, Chamber of Deputies of the Seine from 1906 to 1914 and French Senate of the same department from 1914 to 1940....
     - Minister of State
  • Maurice Viollette
    Maurice Viollette

    Maurice Viollette was a France statesman.He was chief-of-staff for Alexandre Millerand in the Waldeck-Rousseau government in 1898, and was elected as a D?put? for Eure-et-Loir in 1902 and as mayor of Dreux from 1908–1959....
     - Minister of State
  • Albert Sarraut
    Albert Sarraut

    Albert-Pierre Sarraut was a France Radical Party politician, twice List of Prime Ministers of France during the French Third Republic.Sarraut was born in Bordeaux, Gironde, France....
     - Minister of State in charge of North African Affairs
  • Léo Lagrange
    Léo Lagrange

    L?o Lagrange was a SFIO Under-Secretary of State for Sports and for the Organisation of Leisures during the Popular Front . A member of the ?claireurs de France scouting association during his youth, he joined the SFIO socialist party after the scission of the Tours congress in 1920 and wrote articles in the Populaire , the press...
     - Under-Secretary of State for the Sports, the Leisure activities and the Physical Education,


Third ministry (16 December 1946 - 22 January 1947)

  • Léon Blum - President of the Provisional Government and Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • André Le Troquer
    André Le Troquer

    Andr? Le Troquer, was a French politician, socialist lawyer, and president of the National Assembly from January 12, 1954 to January 10, 1955, and a second time from January 24 1956 to October 4, 1958....
     - Minister of National Defense
  • Édouard Depreux
    Édouard Depreux

    ?douard Depreux was a French Socialism journalist, essayist, and politician of the French Fourth Republic; he was born in Viesly and died in Paris....
     - Minister of the Interior
  • André Philip - Minister of Familial Economy and Finance
  • Robert Lacoste
    Robert Lacoste

    Robert Lacoste was born at Azerat on 5th July 1898 and died at P?rigueux on 8th March 1989. A French politician, he was a Socialist Party MP of the Dordogne from 1945 to 1958 and from 1962 to 1967, then senator from 1971 to 1980....
     - Minister of Industrial Production
  • Daniel Mayer - Minister of Labour and Social Security
  • Paul Ramadier
    Paul Ramadier

    Paul Ramadier was a prominent France SFIO of the French Third Republic and French Fourth Republic Republics. Mayor of Decazeville starting in 1919, he served as the first Prime Minister of France of the Fourth Republic in 1947....
     - Minister of Justice
  • Yves Tanguy
    Yves Tanguy

    Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy , known as Yves Tanguy was a surrealist painter....
     - Minister of Public Utilities
  • Marcel Edmond Naegelen - Minister of National Education
  • Max Lejeune - Minister of Veterans and War Victims
  • François Tanguy-Prigent
    François Tanguy-Prigent

    Fran?ois Tanguy-Prigent was a French politician and resistance fighter. .Born in the small town of Saint-Jean-du-Doigt, in the Finist?re d?partement in France of Bretagne, France, Tanguy-Prigent becomes politically active at age 16....
     - Minister of Agriculture
  • Marius Moutet - Minister of Overseas France
  • Jules Moch
    Jules Moch

    Jules Salvador Moch was a France politician....
     - Minister of Public Works, Transport, Reconstruction, and Town Planning
  • Pierre Segelle - Minister of Public Health and Population
  • Eugène Thomas
    Eugene Thomas

    Eugene Thomas is an African-American martial artist and B-movie actor, who went to Taiwan and Hong Kong in the early 1980s, where he made about a dozen movies, mostly about Ninjas, like Mafia vs....
     - Minister of Posts
  • Félix Gouin
    Félix Gouin

    F?lix Gouin was a France Socialist politician, member of the SFIO....
     - Minister of Planning
  • Guy Mollet
    Guy Mollet

    Guy Mollet was a France Socialist politician. He led the French Section of the Workers' International party from 1946 to 1969 and was Prime Minister of France in 1956-1957....
     - Minister of State
  • Augustin Laurent - Minister of State
Changes:
  • 23 December 1946 - Augustin Laurent succeeds Moutet as Minister of Overseas France.

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