Jacques Corrèze (11 February 1912 – 28 June 1991) was a French businessman and politician. He was the

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of the

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-based operation of

L'Oréal L'Oréal S.A. () is a French multinational personal care corporation registered in Paris

for the Americas ( Cosmair), the world's leading company in

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and beauty products. He was the secretary of

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Corrèze was a member of

La Cagoule (, "The Cowl"; founded in 1936) was a French fascist-leaning and anti-communist militant group. It opposed the left-wing Popular Front (in office, June 1936 to 1938) and used violence to promote its activities in the final years of the Thi ...

, a violent

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-leaning and

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group. During its early period,

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, founder of L'Oréal, provided financial support and held meetings for La Cagoule at L'Oréal headquarters. During the Second World War both Corrèze and Eugene Schueller, as well as many other L'Oréal executives, were very active supporters of the

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. When the

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raided Deloncle's home, killed him and injured gravely his son Louis Deloncle, Corrèze was present but escaped. He later married Deloncle's widow, Mercedes Deloncle. After the war Corrèze was convicted of a number of crimes, and sentenced to ten years in prison in France. He was released after serving five years and shortly thereafter became a senior executive at L'Oréal and Chairman of Cosmair, a private U.S. company and the sole licensee of L'Oreal in the United States. Corrèze was in charge of negotiations with Arab governments to comply with the

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Bureau of Economic Boycott requests, after the Arab League began a

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of L'Oréal when it was revealed that the group had acquired

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Incorporated, a company with a manufacturing plant in Israel. Corrèze was also under investigation by the

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in 1991 for his active participation in

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acts and for his membership of the anti-communist ''

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''.''

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'', 20 June 1991, p. D:1:1 Correze resigned from L 'Oreal in 1991 as well, claiming that it was not due to his health. However, he was forced to leave the

and died of

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a week later in Paris, aged 79. His wife died three years earlier.

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