Paul Faure (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Paul Faure (politician)

French socialist politician

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1878

Place of Birth: PĂ©rigueux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 16-Nov-1960

Profession: politician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Paul Faure (politician)

  • Paul Faure (3 February 1878 in PĂ©rigueux, Dordogne – 16 November 1960) was a French politician and one of the leaders of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) between the two world wars.
  • He was a minister of state under Camille Chautemps's third Ministry from June 1937 to January 1938, during the period of the Popular Front. Faure first became a member of Jules Guesde's Parti ouvrier français (POF) in 1901 and was editor-in-chief of the Populaire du Centre.
  • Starting from 1915, he rallied to the centrist and pacifist minority of Jean Longuet in the SFIO, and during the Tours Congress in 1920 he opposed adhesion to the Third International.
  • The Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci underscored how, when Faure visited Imola in 1919, after the Bologna Congress, he had seemed to be in perfect agreement with the representatives of Italian "unitarism".
  • Even after the Tours Congress Faure continued using Marxist rhetoric, but he became a moderate and, along with LĂ©on Blum, directed the SFIO.
  • He was elected to the National Assembly several times. After Édouard Daladier negotiated the Munich agreement in 1938 Paul Faure supported the appeasement policy.
  • After the Battle of France in 1940 he rallied to Vichy, which led to his being expelled from the SFIO in 1944.
  • He then founded the Democratic Socialist Party (PSD) which participated to the Rassemblement des gauches rĂ©publicaines.
  • The PSD attracted only deputies accused of collaborationism and dedicated part of its efforts to attempts at rehabilitation of Philippe PĂ©tain's reactionary regime.
  • It had almost no influence in postwar France.

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