Marcel Sembat
Marcel Étienne Sembat (born October 19, 1862 in Bonnières-sur-Seine , Yvelines department , † September 5, 1922 in Chamonix , Haute-Savoie department ) was a socialist politician and minister in the French Third Republic .
Live and act
Marcel, the son of Adolphe Sembat, the post director, graduated from the Paris Collège Stanislas , was awarded the Concours général in the Latin category in 1878 and, after completing his studies, obtained the academic degree of Dr. jur. and worked as a lawyer at the Paris Court of Appeals .
As a journalist, Marcel Sembat wrote for a number of newspapers - for example for Gambetta's daily newspaper La République française , for La Revue socialiste and for the satirical newspaper La Lanterne and was director of the socialist newspaper La Petite République, founded by Jean Jaurès in 1876 . He had a foreign policy column in the newspaper L'Humanité .
In 1905 Marcel Sembat joined the French section of the Workers' International (SFIO) - the predecessor of today's Socialist Party . Before that he was in the SFIO predecessor organizations - when the Comité révolutionnaire central (CRC 1881–1898), the Parti socialiste révolutionnaire (PSR 1898–1901) and the Parti socialiste de France ( guesdiste ) (PSdF 1902–1905) were active . From 1893 until his death, Marcel Sembat was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies without interruption as a Socialist MP in the 18th arrondissement (Paris) of the Seine department . He was a member of the French League for Human Rights and as a Freemason Vice-President of the Council of the Grand Orient de France . In 1905 he voted for secularism and advocated the transparency of administrative documents.
From August 26, 1914 to December 12, 1916, Marcel Sembat was Minister for Public Works in the Viviani cabinet and then under Aristide Briand . At the end of 1920 at the SFIO Congress in Tours , he voted against French accession to the 3rd International .
Together with his wife Georgette Agutte , Marcel Sembat collected works by Henri Matisse , André Derain , Georges Rouault , Paul Signac , Maurice de Vlaminck and Kees van Dongen . Some of these works can be seen today in the Musée de Grenoble . The politician was friends with Albert Marquet , Paul Signac and Odilon Redon . When Marcel Sembat died of a cerebral haemorrhage , his wife took her own life the next day.
Honor
In France, the attentive traveler encounters the name Marcel Sembat everywhere - for example
- in Boulogne-Billancourt : Marcel Sembat (Métro Paris) ,
- in Lyon at a stop on tram line 4,
- at universities in Sotteville-lès-Rouen and Vénissieux as well as at some elementary schools,
- at the village club of Chalon-sur-Saône ,
- as a street name in Paris, Champigny-sur-Marne , Villeneuve-Saint-Georges , Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Etienne, Aulnay-sous-Bois , Alfortville , Issy-les-Moulineaux , Vélizy-Villacoublay , L'Haÿ-les-Roses , Montrouge , Montreuil , Saint-Ouen , Villetaneuse , Nantes , Venissieux , Port-la-Nouvelle and Narbonne .
The writer Anne Gesthuysen deals with the fate of Sembat and his wife in her novel Be Me a Father (2015).
Web links
- Entries in WorldCat
- Listed on HathiTrust
- Entries in the BSZ
- Newspaper article about Marcel Sembat in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ eng. Pierre Petit
- ^ French Ligne 4 du tramway de Lyon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sembat, Marcel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sembat, Marcel Étienne (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | socialist politician and minister in the French Third Republic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonnières-sur-Seine |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1922 |
| Place of death | Chamonix |