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Comité D'Action Socialiste
The Socialist Action Committee (CAS) was a French Resistance movement founded in March 1941 by Daniel Mayer and Suzanne Buisson under the guidance of Léon Blum. Its purpose was to reorganize the underground French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and coordinate socialist resistance against the German occupation and the Vichy regime. The movement ceased to exist in March 1943, when it was replaced by the clandestine SFIO. Formation of the CAS (1940-1941) The Call to Resist Following the collapse of France in the summer of 1940, and up until his arrest on September 15, Léon Blum urged SFIO leaders to resist the occupation. Blum insisted on continuing political action within France. To Daniel Mayer and his wife Cletta, who considered leaving for London, he said: "You will be just two more mouths to feed there and have no military expertise. There is work to be done here. We must continue the war, rebuild the Party, and lead the fight against the occupiers and Vichy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Mayer
Daniel Raphaël Mayer (29 April 1909 – 29 December 1996) was a French politician and a member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and president of the ''Ligue des droits de l'homme'' (LDH, Human Rights League) from 1958 to 1975. He founded the '' Comité d'Action Socialiste'' in 1941 and was a member of the Brutus Network, a Resistant Socialist group. Mayer also supported the ''Libération-sud'' resistance movement headed by Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie. He was also President of Constitutional Council from 1983 to 1986, and Minister of Labour from 1946 to 1949. Mayer was a Member of Parliament for the Seine The Seine ( , ) is a river in northern France. Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. It rises at Source-Seine, northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plat ... from 1945 to 1958. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayer, Daniel 1909 births 1996 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Communist Party
The French Communist Party (, , PCF) is a Communism, communist list of political parties in France, party in France. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its Member of the European Parliament, MEPs sit with The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL group. The PCF was founded in 1920 by Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist members of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) who supported the Bolsheviks in the 1917 Russian Revolution. It became a member of the Communist International, and followed a Marxist-Leninist line under the leadership of Maurice Thorez. In response to the threat of fascism, the PCF joined the socialist Popular Front (France), Popular Front which won the 1936 election, but it did not participate in government. During World War II, it was outlawed by the occupying Germans and became a key element of the French Resistance, Resistance. The PCF participated in the provisional government of the Liberation of France, Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élie Bloncourt
Élie Bloncourt (5 May 1896 – 4 March 1978) was a French politician who represented the department of Aisne in the French National Assembly from 1936 to 1946. He was blinded by a shrapnel blast in the First World War and was part of the French resistance movement in World War II. He had a degree in philosophy and worked as a high school teacher, while also being involved in organizational works relating to veterans' affairs, pacifism and politics. Early life and World War I Bloncourt was born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe into a political family. Melvil-Bloncourt, who was then deceased, was his great-uncle. His father had been a higher functionary but died before Élie was born, leaving his mother to raise Élie and five other siblings. With the help of a grant Élie attended Lycée Carnot in Pointe-à -Pitre, obtaining a baccalauréat in 1913.Éric Nadaud (2009Élie Bloncourt (1896–1978), une figure du socialisme de gauche unitaire Parlement ''Revue d'histoire politique'' 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Biondi
Jean Dominique Biondi (9 May 1900 Р10 November 1950) was a French politician. Biography Jean Biondi was born in Sari-d'Orcino, on the island of Corsica. Educated in Ajaccio, the island's capital, and in Paris, he taught at the Lyc̩e Condorcet in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Joining the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), the French socialist party, he was one of the editors of the ''Cri populaire de l'Oise'', newspaper of the SFIO in the Oise d̩partement. He was elected mayor of Creil in 1935 and entered the Chamber of Deputies in 1936 following a by-election in the Oise d̩partement. He was re-elected at the general election which followed later in the year, bringing L̩on Blum's Popular Front government to power. In 1937 he was appointed to the editorial committee of the SFIO's official journal ''Le Populaire''. In July 1940, he was one of the 80 who voted against the grant of special powers to Philippe P̩tain and the creation of the Vichy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Bedin
Camille Fernand Bedin (18 January 1893 Р7 February 1979) was a French politician. Biography Camille Bedin was born at Saint-Satur in the Cher d̩partement. He worked as a cloth merchant. During the First World War he served in the French Army as a junior officer in the 50th Infantry Regiment. After the war he settled in Excideuil. He received the L̩gion d'honneur in 1925 for his services during the war and was active in the F̩d̩ration ouvri̬re et paysanne des anciens combattants, a veterans association. He was a member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), the French socialist party, and was elected to represent P̩rigueux in the Chamber of Deputies in 1936. The next year he was elected as a general councillor (''conseiller g̩n̩ral'') for Excideuil. In the Chamber of Deputies he served on the Navy committee and the Commerce and Industry committee. In June 1940, he was one of the 80 who voted against the grant of special powers to Philippe P̩ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Fernand Audeguil
Jean-Fernand Audeguil (5 January 1887 Р23 November 1956) was a French professor, a member of the resistance and a politician. Early life and education Born in Monclar in the department of Lot-et-Garonne, Audeguil studied at the University of Bordeaux and later taught in Bordeaux. Political career He joined the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and was elected to the town council in Talence in 1935. He stood as an SFIO candidate in the 1936 elections to Chamber of Deputies and was elected to represent Bordeaux. In July 1940, Audeguil was on the 80 members of the French assembly who voted against granting special powers to Marshal Philippe P̩tain. As a consequence, he was dismissed from his teaching post by P̩tain's Vichy r̩gime. In 1941 he joined the Lib̩ration-Nord movement of the French Resistance and was a member of the '' Comit̩ d'action socialiste'', the clandestine form of the then-banned SFIO. Following the defeat of German forces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the ÃŽle-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Populaire
''Le Populaire'' is a major independent daily newspaper in Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ....Senegal Country Commercial Guide 2008 . U.S. Commercial Service (2008). References Newspapers published in Senegal Publications with year of establishment missing ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Mollet
Guy Alcide Mollet (; 31 December 1905 – 3 October 1975) was a French politician. He led the socialist French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) from 1946 to 1969 and was the French Prime Minister from 1956 to 1957. As Prime Minister, Mollet passed some significant domestic reforms and worked for European integration, proposing the Franco-British Union. He became unpopular in both the left and the right in the country for his international policy, especially during the Suez Crisis and the Algerian War. Early life He was born in Flers in Normandy, the son of a textile worker. He was educated in Le Havre and became an English teacher in Arras Grammar School. Like most other teachers, he was an active member of the socialist SFIO, joining in 1923, and in 1928 he became SFIO Secretary for the Pas-de-Calais ''département''. World War II He joined the French Army in 1939 and was taken prisoner by the Germans. Released after seven months, he joined the French Resistance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pas-de-Calais
The Pas-de-Calais (, ' strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France, with 890, and is the 8th most populous. It had a population of 1,465,278 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 62 Pas-de-Calais INSEE The Calais Passage connects to the Port of Calais on the . The Pas-de-Calais borders the departments of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organisation Civile Et Militaire
The ''Organisation civile et militaire'' (OCM, "Civil and military organization") was one of the great movements of the French Resistance in the '' zone occupée'', the German-occupied region of northern France, during the Second World War. The OCM was one of the eight great networks of resistance which made up the National Council of the Resistance. History The ''Organisation civile et militaire'' was founded in December 1940 in Paris through the amalgamation of the ''Équipe française d'organisation du redressement'' of the industrialist Jacques Arthuys (the "rue de Logenbach group") and the ''Confédération des travailleurs intellectuels'' inspired by Maxime Blocq-Mascart. From January 1941, employees of the public works ministry reinforced the OCM, under the leadership of André Boulloche and the couple Georges et Raymonde Ricroch. The OCM also recruited from the ''bourgeoisie'', industry, businesspeople, former soldiers, and professionals such as architects, lawyers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
