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Laurent Eynac (4 October 1886 – 16 December 1970) was a French politician who was appointed
Minister of Transportation
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on 7 June 1935 until 24 January 1936. He was born in
Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille, Haute-Loire.
In 1940 Eynac was appointed Minister of the Air in the government of
Paul Reynaud. In this role he served as part of the War Committee put together at early in the
Second World War
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and consisting of Reynaud, President
Albert François Lebrun
Albert François Lebrun (; 29 August 1871 – 6 March 1950) was a French politician, President of France from 1932 to 1940. He was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the centre-right Democratic Republican Alliance (AR ...
, Naval Minister
César Campinchi
César Campinchi (May 4, 1882 in Calcatoggio, Corse-du-Sud – February 22, 1941 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône) was a lawyer and French statesman in the beginning of the 20th century.
Campinchi was president of the '' Association générale ...
, War Minister
Édouard Daladier
Édouard Daladier (; 18 June 1884 – 10 October 1970) was a French Radical-Socialist (centre-left) politician, and the Prime Minister of France who signed the Munich Agreement before the outbreak of World War II.
Daladier was born in Carpentr ...
, Interior Minister
Georges Mandel
Georges Mandel (5 June 1885 – 7 July 1944) was a French journalist, politician, and French Resistance leader.
Early life
Born Louis George Rothschild in Chatou, Yvelines, he was the son of a tailor and his wife. His family was Jewish, originally ...
, Eynac as Air Minister,
French Navy
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chief Admiral
François Darlan, Chief of the Air Staff General
Joseph Vuillemin
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and
French Army
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generals
Maurice Gamelin
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and
Alphonse Joseph Georges
Alphonse Joseph Georges (August 15, 1875 in Allier - Montluçon – April 24, 1951 in Paris) was a French army officer. He was commander in chief of the North East Front in 1939 and 1940. Opposing the plan by supreme commander Maurice Gamelin t ...
.
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Norway 1940
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References
1886 births
1970 deaths
People from Haute-Loire
Politicians from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Democratic Republican Alliance politicians
Independent Radical politicians
Transport ministers of France
French Ministers of Commerce and Industry
French Ministers of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
Members of the 11th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 12th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 13th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 14th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 15th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
French Senators of the Third Republic
Senators of Haute-Loire
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