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About Paul Pouderoux
- Paul Pouderoux (1874-1956) was a French officer.
- During World War I, he first was an air force pilot and afterwards was in command of a regiment of sappers.
- After the war he was commander of the regiment of military firefighters of Paris .
- In 1929 he was active in reorganising the International Technical Committee for the Prevention and Extinction of Fire (CNIF).
- He also organised the Committees congresses of 1929, 1931 and 1934 in Paris, as well as the “First International Exhibition of Firefighting”.
- He was also elected chairman of the committee.
- He retired in 1934, after being promoted general.
- After his retirement, he was in charge of safety measures aboard ocean liners. General Pouderoux was active in leftist groups, such as the Republican Association of Old Combattants (French: Association Républicaine d’Anciens Combattants – ARAC) which had been established in 1917 by intellectuals such as Paul Vaillant-Couturier et Henri Barbusse and whose philosophy was inspired by the ideology of the Communist party on the 1930s.
- He also wrote pacifist publications such as the book “The aéro-chemical dangerimique or the dishonored war" or the article "Our international duty". After the Liberation of France he was maire of the commune of Saint-Paul (Alpes-Maritimes).
- At the request of the Firefighters Brigade of Paris, in 2003 the mairie of Tremblay-en-France approved the change of name of the “Chemin des Vaches” to "Avenue du Général Pouderoux”.
- The street ensures the access to the local barracks of the Paris firefighters.
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