Henri Laudier (20 February 1878 – 10 October 1943) was a French journalist and politician.
He was born at Vierzon,Cher department,France. In his early years he was a tailor and a town clerk before becoming a journalist. Laudier was the editor of Tocsin,a socialist weekly publication. [1] He served the General Counsel of Bourges before becoming the mayor of Bourges from 1919 to 1943. He was a member of the French Section of the Workers' International (Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière) from 1919 to 1924. His book,Ce qu'est le parti socialiste was published in 1919 by SFIO's Librairie du parti socialiste. [2] Laudier was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (1919-1924). [3] He was a Senator of the French Third Republic representing Cher elected in 1930 and reelected 1939,with his term ending upon his death in 1943. [4] On 10 July 1940,he voted as a Senator in favour of granting the cabinet presided by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution,thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France. He died in Bourges,Cher,France.
Louis Aragon was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with AndréBreton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was also a novelist and editor,a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. After 1959,he was a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pierre Brossolette was a French journalist,left-wing politician and major hero of the French Resistance in World War II. He ran an intelligence hub of Parisian resistance at the Rue de la Pompe,before serving as a liaison officer in London,where he also was a radio anchor for the BBC. Arrested in Brittany as he was trying to reach the UK on a mission back from France alongside Émile Bollaert,Brossolette was taken into custody by the Sicherheitsdienst. He committed suicide by jumping out of a window at their headquarters on 84 Avenue Foch in Paris as he feared he would reveal the lengths of French Resistance networks under torture;he died of his wounds at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital later that day. In 2015,his ashes were transferred to the Panthéon with national honours at the request of President François Hollande,alongside politician Jean Zay and fellow Resistance members Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz.
Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916) was a Belgian historian and pioneering Christian democrat. He is known for his histories of the city of Liège in the Middle Ages and of Belgium,his Catholic account of the formation of modern Europe in Les Origines de la civilisation moderne,and his defence of the medieval guild system.
Henri-Jean Martin was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe,and an expert on the history of writing and printing. He was a leader in efforts to promote libraries in France,and the history of libraries and printing.
Roger Karoutchi is a French teacher and politician who has been serving as the first Vice President of the French Senate since 2020. He previously served as the French Ambassador to the OECD and as Secretary of State to the French Prime Minister,with responsibility for Relations with Parliament.
Lucien Deslinières was a French journalist,writer and socialist.
Jacques Numa Sadoul,commonly known as Captain Sadoul,was a French lawyer,communist politician,and writer,one of the founders of the Communist International. He began his career in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in Vienne,and,by the time of World War I,was serving under Albert Thomas,the Minister of Armaments. A French Army Captain,he was Thomas' envoy to the Russian Republic,keeping contact with the socialist circles and steering them toward the Entente Powers. After the October Revolution,he maintained close contacts with the Bolsheviks,pledging them his support against the Central Powers during the crisis of 1917–1918. He was unable to prevent Bolshevist Russia from signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk,which took her out of the war,but,having established close contacts with Leon Trotsky and other communist leaders,became a communist himself.
The Socialist group in the Senate is a parliamentary group in the Senate including representatives of the Socialist Party (PS).
Adéodat Constant Adolphe Compère-Morel was a French Socialist politician,agronomist,orator and writer. Characterized as a Marxist doctrinaire,he was one of the founders of the Socialist Party of France. A gifted propagandist,he was a particular expert on social reform in rural France and became viewed as his party's agrarian specialist. He was an associate of the likes of revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist and literary critic Paul Lafargue and authored many books and papers,several of which were partly written with Lafargue. His best known and most influential work was Encyclopédie socialiste syndicale et coopérative de l'International ouvrière,published in 1912.
Pierre Renaudel was a French socialist politician and journalist.
Charles Rappoport was a Russian and French militant communist politician,journalist and writer. A Jewish intellectual,and a multilingual scholar,he's been referred to as "a grand man of French radicalism".
Adrien Pressemane (1879-1929) was a French politician and journalist. He was the chief editor of Le Populaire du Centre.
The French Workers' Party was the French socialist party created in 1880 by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue,Karl Marx's son-in-law. A revolutionary party,it had as aim to abolish capitalism and replace it with a communist society.
The Socialist Party is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. It holds pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major political parties in the French Fifth Republic,along with The Republicans. It replaced the earlier French Section of the Workers' International in 1969 and is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists,Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
Eugène Corbin (1800–1874) was a French procureur général (prosecutor-general) and politician. During the French Second Republic (1848–1851) he helped suppress opposition to the government headed by Louis Napoleon. He was appointed Minister of Justice during the preparations for the coup of 2 December 1851,but did not accept the office and was replaced a few days later. He was first president of the Bourges court of appeal from 1852 until 1870.
Amédée Dunois was a French lawyer,journalist and politician.
Henri Charles Sellier was a French administrator,urban planner and Socialist politician. He did much to develop garden cities in the Paris region. He was Minister of Health in 1936–37.
Émile Mireaux was a French economist,journalist,politician and literary historian. In the 1930s,he edited Le Temps and contributed to other right-leaning journals. He became a senator in 1936,and briefly served as a minister in 1940. From 1940 until his death,he held a chair in political economy,statistics and finance at the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
Jean Schalit was a French journalist.
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