The Commissioners of the Republic (''commissaires de la République'') or Regional Commissioners of the Republic (CRR) were government officials appointed as representatives of
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...
by the
Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF) between 1944 and 1946. They had a rank equivalent to that of minister (like other commissioners of the GPRF) and were charged with re-establishing Republican legality and freedoms and the state's authority after the
Liberation of France
The liberation of France in the Second World War was accomplished through diplomacy, politics and the combined military efforts of the Allied Powers of World War II, Allied Powers, Free French forces in London and Africa, as well as the French R ...
, answering only to de Gaulle. Most of them originated from
Free French Forces
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The French Liberation Army (french: Armée française de la Libération or AFL) was the reunified French Army that arose from the merging of the Armée d'Afrique with the prior Free French Forces (french: Forces françaises libres, l ...
, though some also came from the
French Resistance
The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...
.
Holders
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Maurice Papon
Maurice Papon (; 3 September 1910 – 17 February 2007) was a French civil servant who led the police in major prefectures from the 1930s to the 1960s, before he became a Gaullist politician. When he was secretary general for the police in Bo ...
*
Michel Debré
Michel Jean-Pierre Debré (; 15 January 1912 – 2 August 1996) was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 195 ...
*
Henri Fréville
Henri Fréville (4 December 1905, in Norrent-Fontes, Pas-de-Calais – 15 June 1987, in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine) was a French history professor, resistor, writer and politician.
Life
He was history professor at the lycée Chateaubriand at Renne ...
Commissioners
Bibliography
* Pierre Bertaux, ''La Libération de Toulouse et de sa région'', Hachette, 1973
* Henry Ingrand, ''Libération de l'Auvergne'', Hachette, 1974
* Raymond Aubrac, ''Où la mémoire s'attarde'', Le grand livre du mois 1996
* Charles-Louis Foulon, ''Le Pouvoir en province à la Libération : les commissaires de la République 1943-1945'', A. Colin 1975
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