Camille Blaisot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French politician
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Place of Birth: Valognes, Normandy, France
About Camille Blaisot
- Camille Blaisot (19 January 1881 – 24 January 1945) was a French politician and lawyer. Blaisot was born in Valognes and was elected in 1914 to represent Caen in the Chamber of Deputies.
- He served as Minister of Health in 1931 and 1932 under Pierre Laval and André Tardieu, and again in 1935 and 1936 under Laval.
- He broke with the government over arms sales to the Soviet Union, and in the late 1930s Blaisot was associated with the Liberty Front created by Jacques Doriot.
- Blaisot did not vote in the parliamentary sessions at Vichy which granted extraordinary powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain and created the Vichy Regime.
- His attitude and activities led to his arrest by German security forces on 2 March 1944.
- He was initially held in a camp near Compiègne and later sent to Dachau concentration camp where he died in 1945. A number of schools and streets are named in his honour.
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| Work period | between 1909 and 1937 | ||
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