Waldeck L'Huillier (1905-1986) was a French politician. He served as a
Communist
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member of the
Senate
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in the 1950s and of the
National Assembly
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from the early 1950s to the end of the 1970s.
Biography
Early life
Waldeck L'Huillier was born on 27 May 1905 in
Chauvigny
Chauvigny (; Poitevin dialect, Poitevin: ''Chôvigni'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Vienne Departments of France, department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regions of France, region in western France.
Chauvigny is located east of Poitiers ...
,
Vienne
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Career
He joined the
French Communist Party
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at the age of sixteen. He was jailed for two years for his activism. He later served as the leader of the party.
He served as Deputy Mayor of
Gennevilliers
Gennevilliers () is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of Île-de-France. It is located from the centre of Paris. In 2017, it had a population of 46,907.
History
On 9 April 1929, one-fifth of the ...
from 1934 to 1938. During
World War II
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, he joined the
French resistance
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. He then served as the Mayor of Gennevilliers from 1945 to 1973.Melissa K. Byrnes, ''French Like Us? Municipal Policies and North African Migrants in the Parisian Banlieues, 1945—1975'', ProQuest, 2008 , p. 4 /ref>
He served as a member of the
Senate
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for the Seine district from 1952 to 1958. He also served as a Communist member of the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...
for the Seine district from 10 November 1946 to 4 July 1951 and for the Paris district from 25 November 1962 to 2 April 1967. He then served as a member of the Assembly for the
Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine (; ) is a Departments of France, département in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, Northern France. It covers Paris's western inner Banlieue, suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the e ...
district from 5 March 1967 to 30 May 1968, from 23 June 1968 to 1 April 1973 and again from 4 March 1973 to 2 April 1978.