Léo Lagrange, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Léo Lagrange

French politician

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1900

Place of Birth: Bourg, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 09-Jun-1940

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Léo Lagrange

  • Léo Lagrange (28 November 1900, in Bourg (Gironde) – 9 June 1940, in Évergnicourt) was a French Under-Secretary of State for Sports and for the Organisation of Leisure during the Popular Front (1936-1938).
  • A member of the Éclaireurs de France scouting association during his youth, he joined the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO, socialist party) after the split at the Tours party congress in 1920 and wrote articles in Populaire (Popular), the press organ of the SFIO.
  • Elected official appointed in 1932 at the time of the second Coalition of the left, he was then named under-secretary of State in the Popular Front government of Léon Blum.
  • He participated in the organisation of the People's Olympiad in Barcelona, organized to counter the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin which were used as a propaganda instrument of Nazism.

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