Robert Hersant was a French newspaper magnate. He was a leader in the pro-Nazi youth movement during the Vichy wartime years,but after prison time built a major newspaper empire and engaged in conservative politics. At the time of his death he operated 40 publications and employed 8,000 people,but failed in his leap into television.
Raymond Marcellin was a French politician.
Jacques Soustelle was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces,a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of Algeria,an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations,and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939. Soustelle and his followers opposed any compromise with anticolonial activists in Algeria in the Algerian War.
Marie-George Buffet is a French politician. She was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 2001 to 2010. She joined the Party in 1969,and she served in the government as Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports from 4 June 1997 to 5 May 2002. Buffet was re-elected on 16 June 2002 to another five-year term in the National Assembly as a representative of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Charles Joseph Tillon was a French metal worker,Communist,trade union leader,politician and leader of the French Resistance during World War II (1939–45).
The Union of Communist Students is a French student political organization,part of the Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France. It was founded in 1939 but dissolved after World War II. The UEC was re-created in 1956,along with the MJCF. It is independent from the French Communist Party (PCF) although it remains close to it. It maintains exchange contacts with the PCF,in particular on student issues. The UEC is organized in sectors,by university,and is led by a national collective elected during the congress of the MJCF and renewed during the National Assemblies of the facilitators,every year. A national coordination runs the organization.
François Asensi is a French politician who has served as the Mayor of Tremblay-en-France since 1991 and served as Member of the National Assembly for Seine-Saint-Denis' 11th constituency from 1988 to 2017.
Marie-Hélène Simone Monique Amiable is a French politician who has served as the Mayor of Bagneux since 2004. She also served as Member of the National Assembly for the Hauts-de-Seine's 11th constituency from 2007 to 2012. Amiable is a member of the French Communist Party (PCF) and sat in the Democratic and Republican Left group in the National Assembly.
The Mouvement Jeunes communistes de France (MJCF),commonly called the "JC",is the first political youth organisation of France,close to the French communist party.
Pyrénées-Orientales,also known as Northern Catalonia,is a department of the region of Occitania,Southern France,adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. It also surrounds the tiny Spanish exclave of Llívia,and thus has two distinct borders with Spain. In 2019,it had a population of 479,979. Some parts of the Pyrénées-Orientales are part of the Iberian Peninsula. It is named after the Pyrenees mountain range.
Count François de Menthon was a French politician and professor of law.
Jacques Decour,was a French writer,Germanist,essayist,translator and resistant fighter,executed by the Nazis.
The French National-Collectivist Party,originally known as the French National Communist Party,was a minor political group active in the French Third Republic and reestablished in occupied France. Its leader in both incarnations was the sports journalist Pierre Clémenti. It espoused a "national communist" platform noted for its similarities with fascism,and popularized racial antisemitism. The group was also noted for its agitation in support of pan-European nationalism and rattachism,maintaining contacts in both Nazi Germany and Wallonia.
Raymond Cayol (1917–1997) was a French politician. He served as a Popular Republican Movement member of the French National Assembly for the Bouches-du-Rhône from 1946 to 1951.
Albert Ouzoulias was a French politician and a Communist leader of the French Resistance during World War II (1939–45) using the name of "Colonel André". He played a major role in the 1944 liberation of Paris.
Jean Letourneau was a French lawyer and politician. He was a lifelong Christian Democrat. During World War II (1939–45) he was active in the French Resistance. After the war he was a deputy in the national legislature from 1945 to 1956,and held various ministerial posts. His most important office was that of Minister,or Minister of State,for Relations with Associated States. He held office between 1950 and 1953. In this role he was responsible for policy in French Indochina during the struggle of the people of those countries for independence. He was strongly anti-communist and in favor of maintaining French authority in the region.
The 3rd constituency of the Seine-Maritime is a French legislative constituency in the Seine-Maritime département. Like the other 576 French constituencies,it elects one MP using the two-round system,with a run-off if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.
The 8th constituency of the Seine-Maritime is a French legislative constituency in the Seine-Maritime département. Like the other 576 French constituencies,it elects one MP using the two-round system,with a run-off if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.
Hermeline Malherbe,born Hermeline Laurent on February 18,1969 in Carvin (Pas-de-Calais),is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party,she has been president of the departmental council of Pyrénées-Orientales since November 21,2010 and senator for Pyrénées-Orientales from 2014 to 2017,the day after the death of Christian Bourquin,for whom she was the substitute.
François Charles Joseph Valentin was a French politician and military general. During World War II,he led the French Legion of Combatants from 1941 to 1942 before joining the Resistance. He was deputy of the Third Republic,senator of the Fourth Republic and deputy of the fifth Republic.
