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{{Short description|French politician (1911–1979)}}
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| name = Paul Coste-Floret
| order = Member of the ''[[Constitutional Council (France)|Conseil constitutionnel]]''
| nationality = [[French people|French]]
|image = Paul Coste-Floret.jpg
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| term_start = 3 March 1971
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| term_end = 27 August 1979
| predecessor = [[René Cassin]]
| successor = [[Robert Lecourt]]
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| order2 = ''[[Minister of State|Ministre d'État]]''
| term_start2 = 8 January 1953
| term_end2 = 21 May 1953
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| order3 = ''[[Member of Parliament (France)|Député]]'' for [[Hérault]]
| term_start3 = 9 December 1945
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| term_end3 = 2 April 1967
| successor3 = {{interlanguage link|Gilbert Sénès|fr}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|04|09|df=y}}
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| birth_place = [[Montpellier]], [[France]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|08|27|1911|04|09|df=y}}
| death_place = Montpellier, France
| spouse =
| party = ''[[Popular Republican Movement|Mouvement Républicain Populaire]]''
| otherparty = ''[[Democratic Centre (France)|Centre Démocrate]]''
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'''Paul Coste-Floret''' (9 April 1911 – 27 August 1979) was a French politician. He was born and died in [[Montpellier]], France.
'''Paul Coste-Floret''' (9 April 1911 – 27 August 1979) was a French politician. He was born and died in [[Montpellier]], France.


== Biography ==
==Career==
Coste-Floret was originally an academic, becoming [[Doctor of Law]] in 1935 and teaching law at the [[Algiers 1 University|University of Algiers]].<ref name="BNF">{{cite web |title=Paul Coste-Floret (1911–1979) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11830931/paul_coste-floret |website=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 June 2021}}</ref><ref name="D.C.1946">{{cite book|author=Foundation for Foreign Affairs, Washington, D.C.|title=Foundation Pamphlet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=otgtAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=20 June 2021|year=1946}}</ref><ref name="Cooper2016">{{cite book|author=Frederick Cooper|title=Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XW-YDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|accessdate=20 June 2021|date=31 May 2016|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-17145-6|page=84}}</ref><ref name="CC">{{cite web |title=Paul COSTE-FLORET |url=https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/membres/paul-coste-floret |website=Le Conseil constitutionnel |access-date=20 June 2021}}</ref>
Professor on the faculty of [[Algiers]], he engaged in the [[French Resistance]]. He advised [[André Philip]] and director of the cabinet of [[François de Menthon]]. He was an assistant prosecutor at the [[Nuremberg Tribunal]].


During the [[Second World War]], Coste-Floret was active in the [[French Resistance]].<ref name="Kedward1978">{{cite book|author=Harry Roderick Kedward|title=Resistance in Vichy France: A Study of Ideas and Motivation in the Southern Zone, 1940-1942|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DiJnAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=20 June 2021|year=1978|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-822529-4|page=30}}</ref> He also advised [[André Philip]] and [[François de Menthon]], ministers in the [[Free France|Free French]] provisional government.<ref name="CC"/> After the war Coste-Floret was an assistant prosecutor at the [[Nuremberg trials]].<ref name="CC"/>
Member of the two constituent national Assemblies, he worked with the second project of the constitution of the [[French Fourth Republic]] which was adopted 27 October 1946, then a deputy of the [[Popular Republican Movement]] (MRP), then a deputy from [[Hérault]] from 1946 to 1958. He worked several times under the Fourth Republic. As minister of the French Overseas Territories he led a policy creating the agreements of [[Bay of Along]] in 1949. He modified the law of the [[Cochinchine]] which became part of [[Vietnam]]. In regards to health he proposed increased family benefits. As a deputy he defended the white growers of Midi. He presented the statute of [[Algeria]] in 1957. He recommended greater autonomy for French Black Africa.


He was elected as a ''[[Member of Parliament (France)|député]]'' to the [[National Assembly (French Fourth Republic)|Assemblée Nationale]] in 1946 as a member of the ''[[Popular Republican Movement|Mouvement Républicain Populaire]]'', for the [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Hérault]], and served until 1958.<ref name="BNF"/><ref name="Cooper2016"/><ref name="CC"/><ref name="AN">{{cite web |title=Paul Coste-Floret |url=https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/%28num_dept%29/1993 |website=Assemblée nationale |access-date=20 June 2021}}</ref>
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Favorable to the political return of [[Charles de Gaulle|General de Gaulle]], he is member of the Constitutional Consultative Committee which prepared the Constitution of 1958. He was reelected deputy of the MRP in 1958. He served along with the centrist group until 1967. Named by president of the Senate, [[Alain Poher]], he served the [[Constitutional Council of France|Conseil constitutionnel]] from 23 February 1971 until his death.


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Coste-Floret supported the political return of [[Charles de Gaulle|General de Gaulle]] and was a member of the Constitutional Consultative Committee which prepared the Constitution of 1958.<ref name="BNF"/> He was re-eelected ''député'' of the MRP in 1958, and served with the centrist group until 1967.<ref name="AN"/> He was nominated by the president of the Senate, [[Alain Poher]], to the [[Constitutional Council (France)|Conseil constitutionnel]] from 23 February 1971, and served on this until his death.<ref name="CC"/>
He was a mayor of [[Lodève]] and chair [[University Montpellier 1]] from 1977 to 1979.


==Political views==
Grandson of deputy, he was twin brother of [[Alfred Coste-Floret]], who was also appointed MRP but for [[Haute-Garonne]].

As minister of the [[Overseas territory (France)|French Overseas Territories]], Coste-Floret worked on the [[Hạ Long Bay|Halong Bay]] Agreements (''Accords de la baie d’Along'') in 1949. He modified the law of [[Cochinchina]], which became part of [[Vietnam]]. He proposed increased family benefits. As a ''député'' he defended the wine producers of Midi. In principle he supported the statute of [[French Algeria|Algeria]] in 1957, but still said that he would vote against it.<ref name="Koß2019">{{cite book|author=Michael Koß|title=Parliaments in Time: The Evolution of Legislative Democracy in Western Europe, 1866-2015|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9t1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176|accessdate=20 June 2021|date=29 January 2019|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-876691-9|page=176}}</ref> He recommended greater autonomy for [[List of French possessions and colonies#In Africa|French Black Africa]].

From 1967 to 1971 he was vice-president of ''[[Democratic Centre (France)|Centre Démocrate]]''.<ref name="CC"/>

==Other posts==

Coste-Floret was [[mayor (France)|mayor]] of [[Lamalou-les-Bains]] from 1953 to 1959 and mayor of [[Lodève]] from 1959 to 1967.<ref name="CC"/> He was president of the [[Departmental council (France)|departmental council]] of [[Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare]] from 1967 to 1973.<ref name="CC"/> He was chair of the [[University of Montpellier]] from 1977 to 1979.<ref name="CC"/>

==Personal life==

He was the twin brother of the politician {{interlanguage link|Alfred Coste-Floret|fr}}.<ref name="BNF"/>


== Government roles ==
== Government roles ==
* Ministre de la Guerre in the government of [[Paul Ramadier]] (22 January &ndash; 22 October 1947)
* ''[[Minister of War (France)|Ministre de la Guerre]]'' in the government of [[Paul Ramadier]] (22 January &ndash; 22 October 1947)<ref name="BNF"/><ref name="CC"/>
* Ministre de la France d'Outre-mer in the government of [[Robert Schuman]] (1) (24 November 1947 &ndash; 26 July 1948)
* ''[[Minister of the Overseas (France)|Ministre de la France d'Outre-mer]]'' in the government of [[Robert Schuman]] (1) (24 November 1947 &ndash; 26 July 1948)<ref name="CC"/>
* Ministre de la France d'Outre-mer in the government of [[André Marie]] (26 July &ndash; 5 September 1948)
* ''Ministre de la France d'Outre-mer'' in the government of [[André Marie]] (26 July &ndash; 5 September 1948)<ref name="CC"/>
* Ministre de la France d'Outre-mer in the government of [[Robert Schuman]] (2) (5 September &ndash; 11 September 1948)
* ''Ministre de la France d'Outre-mer'' in the government of Robert Schuman (2) (5 September &ndash; 11 September 1948)<ref name="CC"/>
* Ministre de la France d'Outre-mer in the government of [[Henri Queuille]] (1) (11 September 1948 &ndash; 28 October 1949)
* ''Ministre de la France d'Outre-mer'' in the government of [[Henri Queuille]] (1) (11 September 1948 &ndash; 28 October 1949)<ref name="CC"/>
* Ministre de la France d'Outre-mer in the government of [[Henri Queuille]] (2) (2 July &ndash; 12 July 1950)
* ''Ministre de la France d'Outre-mer'' in the government of Henri Queuille (2) (2 July &ndash; 12 July 1950)<ref name="CC"/>
* Ministre de l'Information in the government of [[Edgar Faure]] (1) (20 January &ndash; 8 March 1952)
* ''[[Minister of Information (France)|Ministre de l'Information]]'' in the government of [[Edgar Faure]] (1) (20 January &ndash; 8 March 1952)<ref name="CC"/>
* Ministre d'État in the government of [[René Mayer]] (8 January &ndash; 28 June 1953)
* ''[[Minister of State|Ministre d'État]]'' in the government of [[René Mayer]] (8 January &ndash; 28 June 1953)<ref name="CC"/>
* Ministre de la Santé publique et de la Population in the government of [[Joseph Laniel]] (28 June 1953 &ndash; 19 June 1954)
* ''Ministre de la Santé publique et de la Population'' in the government of [[Joseph Laniel]] (28 June 1953 &ndash; 19 June 1954)<ref name="CC"/><ref name="Parsons2018">{{cite book|author=Craig Parsons|title=A Certain Idea of Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F6NhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA88|accessdate=20 June 2021|date=5 July 2018|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-1-5017-3208-9|page=88}}</ref>


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Paul Coste-Floret
Member of the Conseil constitutionnel
In office
3 March 1971 – 27 August 1979
Preceded byRené Cassin
Succeeded byRobert Lecourt
Ministre d'État
In office
8 January 1953 – 21 May 1953
Député for Hérault
In office
9 December 1945 – 2 April 1967
Succeeded byGilbert Sénès [fr]
Personal details
Born(1911-04-09)9 April 1911
Montpellier, France
Died27 August 1979(1979-08-27) (aged 68)
Montpellier, France
Political partyMouvement Républicain Populaire
Other political
affiliations		Centre Démocrate

Paul Coste-Floret (9 April 1911 – 27 August 1979) was a French politician. He was born and died in Montpellier, France.

Career[edit]

Coste-Floret was originally an academic, becoming Doctor of Law in 1935 and teaching law at the University of Algiers.[1][2][3][4]

During the Second World War, Coste-Floret was active in the French Resistance.[5] He also advised André Philip and François de Menthon, ministers in the Free French provisional government.[4] After the war Coste-Floret was an assistant prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.[4]

He was elected as a député to the Assemblée Nationale in 1946 as a member of the Mouvement Républicain Populaire, for the department of Hérault, and served until 1958.[1][3][4][6]

Coste-Floret supported the political return of General de Gaulle and was a member of the Constitutional Consultative Committee which prepared the Constitution of 1958.[1] He was re-eelected député of the MRP in 1958, and served with the centrist group until 1967.[6] He was nominated by the president of the Senate, Alain Poher, to the Conseil constitutionnel from 23 February 1971, and served on this until his death.[4]

Political views[edit]

As minister of the French Overseas Territories, Coste-Floret worked on the Halong Bay Agreements (Accords de la baie d’Along) in 1949. He modified the law of Cochinchina, which became part of Vietnam. He proposed increased family benefits. As a député he defended the wine producers of Midi. In principle he supported the statute of Algeria in 1957, but still said that he would vote against it.[7] He recommended greater autonomy for French Black Africa.

From 1967 to 1971 he was vice-president of Centre Démocrate.[4]

Other posts[edit]

Coste-Floret was mayor of Lamalou-les-Bains from 1953 to 1959 and mayor of Lodève from 1959 to 1967.[4] He was president of the departmental council of Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare from 1967 to 1973.[4] He was chair of the University of Montpellier from 1977 to 1979.[4]

Personal life[edit]

He was the twin brother of the politician Alfred Coste-Floret [fr].[1]

Government roles[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Paul Coste-Floret (1911–1979)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  2. ^ Foundation for Foreign Affairs, Washington, D.C. (1946). Foundation Pamphlet. Retrieved 20 June 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b Frederick Cooper (31 May 2016). Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960. Princeton University Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-691-17145-6. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Paul COSTE-FLORET". Le Conseil constitutionnel. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  5. ^ Harry Roderick Kedward (1978). Resistance in Vichy France: A Study of Ideas and Motivation in the Southern Zone, 1940-1942. Oxford University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-19-822529-4. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Paul Coste-Floret". Assemblée nationale. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  7. ^ Michael Koß (29 January 2019). Parliaments in Time: The Evolution of Legislative Democracy in Western Europe, 1866-2015. Oxford University Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-19-876691-9. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  8. ^ Craig Parsons (5 July 2018). A Certain Idea of Europe. Cornell University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-1-5017-3208-9. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
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