Hérault
Hérault (; oc, Erau, ) is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France. Named after the Hérault River, its prefecture is Montpellier. It had a population of 1,175,623 in 2019.Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
) was a French politician, lawyer, journalist and
essayist
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.
Biography
Izard was named chief of staff to
Charles Daniélou
Charles Léon Claude Daniélou (13 July 1878 – 30 December 1953) was a French politician who was Minister of the Merchant Marine in 1930–1931 and Minister of Health in 1932–1933).
Early years
Charles Léon Claude Daniélou came from a pros ...
, then the minister of the merchant marine, whose daughter he married in 1929. ON 26 April 1936, he was elected member of parliament as a candidate of the
Frontist Party
The Frontist Party (french: Parti frontiste, PF), also known as the Common Front or Social Front, was a political party in France founded in 1936 by Gaston Bergery and Georges Izard. It was a founding member of the Popular Front.
Gaston Bergery ...
in
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a department in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. It had a population of 733,760 in 2019.Pierre Amidieu du Clos.
In November 1936, he founded the
Frontist Party
The Frontist Party (french: Parti frontiste, PF), also known as the Common Front or Social Front, was a political party in France founded in 1936 by Gaston Bergery and Georges Izard. It was a founding member of the Popular Front.
Gaston Bergery ...
with Bergery. He left the Frontist party in November 1937 to join the SFIO.Liora Israël Un procès du Goulag au temps du Goulag ? L'affaire Kravchenko (1949) ''Critique internationale'', 2007/3 (), pages 85 à 101 In July 1938 he became technical adviser to the Socialist Federation of
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a department in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. It had a population of 733,760 in 2019.Organisation civile et militaire (OCM). From November 1944, he was a member of
Provisional Consultative Assembly
The Provisional Consultative Assembly (french: Assemblée consultative provisoire) was a governmental organ of Free France that operated under the aegis of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) and that represented the resist ...
Constituent Assembly of the Fourth Republic. He was Secretary-General of the OCM from 1945 to 1948. He then pursued a successful legal career. In November 1971, he was named to the
Académie française
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.
Izard died on 20 September 1973.
Works
*''La Pensée de
Charles Péguy
Charles Pierre Péguy (; 7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism. By 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing b ...
'' (with
Emmanuel Mounier
Emmanuel Mounier (; ; 1 April 1905 – 22 March 1950) was a French philosopher, theologian, teacher and essayist.
Biography
Mounier was the guiding spirit in the French personalist movement, and founder and director of '' Esprit'', the magazine ...
and Marcel Péguy, 1931)
*''Où va le communisme ? L'évolution du parti communiste. Les textes'' (1936)
*''La Bataille de la France'' (Avec André Deléage, Georges Duveau, Jules Roman et L.-E. Galeÿ, 1938)
*''Les Classes moyennes'' (1938)
*''Les Coulisses de la Convention'' (1939)
*''Principes de droit civil, Cours professé à l'École supérieure d'organisation professionnelle'' (1944)
*''L'Homme est révolutionnaire'' (1945)
*''Principes de droit civil, Cours professé à l'École nationale d'organisation économique et sociale'' (1946)
*''Viol d'un mausolée, le sens et l'avenir de la déstalinisation'' (1957)
*''Lettre affligée au général de Gaulle'' (1964)
*''Sainte Catherine de Gênes et l'au-delà'' (1969)