Pierre Renaudel (19 December 1871 – 1 April 1935) was a French

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politician and journalist.

Biography

He served as central committee member of the League of Human Rights (''Ligue des droits de l'homme'', LDH), was a founder and ''majoritaire'' of the

Socialist Party of France The Socialist Party (french: Parti socialiste , PS) is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. It holds pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major p ...

(PSdF). He urged the party to work with the Radicals and wanted the party to build coalition cabinets as he felt the alternative, would be instability and reaction. Renaudel was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and a national leader of the

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(''Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière'', SFIO). He was editor of the daily newspaper ''

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''; and was the founder and political editor of the socialist weekly publication, '' La Vie Socialiste''. He was characterized as a right-wing parliamentary leader of the Socialists in the

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. Renaudel was an editor of ''

'' from 1914 through the end of

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. It was said that, "his editorials of ''L'Humanité'' were frequently to be noticed for their good sense and their true democratic and Socialist tone". He became a reformist socialist spokesman, opposed to all forms of violence and

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ideology, which he said was absurdly rigid. Elected to the

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in 1914, representing Var, he was defeated in 1919, but regained his seat in 1924, and was reelected in 1928 and again in 1932. He became a supporter of Socialist involvement in radical government leadership. In 1933, along with

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and

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, he founded the PSdF, but after having disagreements with them, he resigned from the presidency of PSdF's parliamentary group. He was a member of the Central Committee of the League of Human Rights. A delegate at the 1916

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Berne Conference, he was refused permission to attend the

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Partial works

* ''L'Internationale à Berne : faits et documents'' (1899) * ''Pour le socialisme arguments. Préface d'A. Cipriani'' (1903) * ''Jean Jaurès : un anniversaire'' (1917) * ''Pour la paix du peuples discours prononcé à la Chambre les 25 et 26 septembre 1919'' (1919) * ''La Situation des Juifs en Pologne, rapport de la commission d'étude désignée par la Conférence socialiste internationale de Lucerne. Pierre Renaudel, secrétaire-rapporteur.'' (1920) * ''Pour un programme d'action pour l'unité internationale'' (1920) * ''L'indépendance de la Géorgie et la politique internationale du bolchevisme; discours prononcé á la Chambre des députés le jeudi 29 janvier 1925 dans la discussion du budget des affaires éntrangéres'' (1925) * ''Rapport fait au nom de la Commission des finances chargée d'examiner le projet de loi portant fixation du Budget général de l'exercice 1930. (Air) Par M. Pierre Renaudel'' (1929)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Renaudel, Pierre 1871 births 1935 deaths People from Seine-Maritime French Section of the Workers' International politicians French newspaper editors French male non-fiction writers French neo-socialists Critics of Marxism