Lambert Saravane (1907-1979) was a

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in the

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between 2 June 1946 and 4 July 1951. He was born on 17 September 1907 at Rettiarpaleom in Ozhukarai, in the territory of

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, then part of

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; and died on 18 February 1979 at

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, in

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. Saravane was elected under the banner of the

Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance The Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (french: Union démocratique et socialiste de la Résistance or UDSR) was a French political party founded after the liberation of France from German occupation and mainly active during the Fo ...

(UDSR) group of

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and

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. Elected in 1946 with the support of the National Democratic Front, he joined

Édouard Goubert Édouard Goubert (29 July 1894 – 14 August 1979) was mayor and first chief minister of Pondicherry between 1 July 1963 and 11 September 1964. Initially a strongly pro-French leader, he later shifted towards the pro-merger Indian National Co ...

in July 1947 to found the anti-merger

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, then shifted towards anticolonialism a year later, even before the October 1948 municipal elections and in 1951 he was beaten by Goubert with 149 to 90,053 votes at the

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. In the following years, heading a new, moderate, ''Parti républicain'', he became openly a pro-merger activist. He left the political scene after the merger and taught at the French Pondicherry College.

References

External links

Biography on the site of the French Assembly
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saravane, Lambert 1907 births 1979 deaths People from Ozhukarai People of French India Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance politicians Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1946) Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic