Séraphin Buisset
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Séraphin Léopold Buisset (10 June 1870–9 January 1949) was a French
politician.
Séraphin Buisset was born in Rives
in the Isère
départment and was a wine merchant there. He was elected as a conseiller général in 1907 and to the town council of Rives in 1912. In the 1914 general election he and was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies where he sat with the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) (French socialist party) and held his seat constantly thereafter until 1940. He was elected mayor of Rives in 1919 and again held the office without interruption until removed in 1941.
In July 1940 Buisset was among the 80 members of the French Parliament who voted against
the grant of special powers to Philippe Pétain
and the creation of the Vichy régime
. In consequence he was removed from his offices.
Buisset died in Rives in 1949 and is buried there. A street in the town is named in his honour.
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.
Séraphin Buisset was born in Rives
Rives, Isère
Rives is a commune in the Isère department in south-eastern France.-Access:By road: By motorway or the Départemental Road, the D1085, between Lyon and GrenobleBy train: The TER Lyon Perrache/Saint André le Gaz/Grenoble line...
in the Isère
Isère
Isère is a department in the Rhône-Alpes region in the east of France named after the river Isère.- History :Isère is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Dauphiné...
départment and was a wine merchant there. He was elected as a conseiller général in 1907 and to the town council of Rives in 1912. In the 1914 general election he and was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies where he sat with the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) (French socialist party) and held his seat constantly thereafter until 1940. He was elected mayor of Rives in 1919 and again held the office without interruption until removed in 1941.
In July 1940 Buisset was among the 80 members of the French Parliament who voted against
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....
the grant of special powers to 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...
and the creation of 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...
. In consequence he was removed from his offices.
Buisset died in Rives in 1949 and is buried there. A street in the town is named in his honour.