Robert Lazurick (1896–1968) was a French lawyer, politician and newspaper proprietor. He served as a member of the
Chamber of Deputies
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from 1936 to 1941, representing
Cher
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.
Early life
Lazurick was born in
Pantin on 3 April 1895 in a very modest family: his mother sold cotton cloth in local street markets, and his parents went through many sacrifices to enable their three children to attend school, since free state education didn't exist at the time.
As an adolescent, he became a follower of
Jean Jaurès. At 16, he launched and directed a weekly newspaper aimed at the young generation: ''La Jeunesse Socialiste''. When
World War I
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erupted, he was 19 and studying law. He interrupted his studies to enrol in the infantry and fought through the entire campaign at
Verdun
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, which he survived and was lucky to avoid amputation after suffering from frozen feet.
Career
After demobilization, he completed his studies and joined the Paris
Bar
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in 1921, to begin his career as a lawyer, defending political causes deemed lost, such as that of anarcho-pacifist
Louis Lecoin
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Biography
Louis Lecoin was born into a very poor family in Saint-Amand-Montrond in the Cher département. His paren ...
(1927), as well as the
Martiniquais who had rebelled against the French colonial government, or the French miners who had come out on justified, often violent strikes.
In 1923, he broke off from the Bolshevik wing of the French socialist party, thus incurring the lasting hatred of the French communist party.
In 1925, he created another paper, ''Le Soir'', which was in print until 1932 and employed, among others, the poet
Robert Desnos
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Biography
Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July 1900, the son of a licensed dealer in game and poultry at the '' H ...
as journalist.
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1896 births
1968 deaths
People from Pantin
Jewish French politicians
French Section of the Workers' International politicians
Members of the 16th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of Parliament for Cher
20th-century French lawyers
20th-century French journalists
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