Michel Carlini (1889,

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– 1967) was a

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. He served as the

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, France's second largest city, from 1947 to 1953, and as a member of the

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for the Bouches-du-Rhone from 1951 to 1955.French National Assembly biography
/ref> He was a member of the

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, started by General

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Biography

Michel Charles Carlini was born on 31 July 1889 in

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. He received a PhD in

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with merit. He then fought in the

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, and received the

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and the Croix de Verdun. After the war, he worked as a lawyer again, married in 1926, and became Dean of the Law School before 1939. He was also involved with the

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. He became

of Marseille in 1947, and battled with

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strikers and demonstrators, up until 1953. At one point, he had to pretend to step down to assuage the protesters. In 1955, he did not support the government of

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. In 1954, he voted against the

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. In 1956, he ran again for the National Assembly of France, and lost. He helped put together a collection in the Musée de Bastia in

Corsica Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...

.Musée de Bastia
/ref> He died in Marseille in 1967.

References

1889 births 1967 deaths Rally of the French People politicians Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Mayors of Marseille French military personnel of World War I Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France) French people of Corsican descent {{France-mayor-stub