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Maurice Viollette (3 September 1870 in
Janville, Eure-et-Loir Janville () is a former Communes of France, commune in the Eure-et-Loir Departments of France, department in northern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Janville-en-Beauce.Dreux) was a French
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. He was chief-of-staff for
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in the
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government in 1898, and was elected as a '' député'' for
Eure-et-Loir Eure-et-Loir (, locally: ) is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers. It is located in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. In 2019, Eure-et-Loir had a population of 431,575.mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well a ...
of Dreux from 1908–1959. He acted as Transport and Supply Minister in 1917, Governor General of
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from 1925 to 1927, Minister of State for the
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, and author of the Blum-Viollette proposal of 1936, which proposed to grant French
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to
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n elites. Ousted and placed under
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by the
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, he was re-elected after the
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and remained mayor and ''député'' of Dreux and president of the ''
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