Léon Debouverie (3 June 1889 - 10 March 1950) was a French politician. He was appointed as the mayor of

Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; , or ) is a city and Communes of France, commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme (department), Somme Departments of France, department in the region ...

by the

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on 17 June 1940, but he was arrested by the Germans in June 1941 and given an eleven-month prison sentence. He remained on

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until the end of the war. He served as a member of the

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from 1945 to 1946, representing

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1889 births 1950 deaths People from Amiens Popular Republican Movement politicians Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945) Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France {{Somme-politician-stub