André Le Troquer
André Le Troquer (born October 27, 1884 in Andilly (Val-d'Oise) , † November 11, 1963 in Enghien-les-Bains , Val-d'Oise ) was a French politician of the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière ( SFIO), Minister , Mayor of Paris and two-time President of the National Assembly .
Life
Le Troquer studied after school attendance law and was after graduation as a lawyer working.
With the election victory of the Popular Front in 1936, he was elected for the first time as a member of the National Assembly and represented Paris in this . In June 1940 he spoke out against the Compiègne armistice .
From February to May 1942 he acted as a lawyer together with Félix Gouin as defense lawyer for Léon Blum at the Riom trial , a trial of the Vichy regime against the leaders of the last governments of the Third French Republic , which made the Front Populaire under Léon Blum responsible should clarify for the defeat against the German Reich in the western campaign in 1940. In May 1943, as a representative of the SFIO, he became a member of the Conseil national de la Résistance and later in June 1944 a member of the Provisional Government of France formed by General Charles de Gaulle in Algiers .
At the side of General de Gaulle, he finally returned to Paris after the Battle of Paris in August 1944, became the first mayor of Paris after the Second World War in March 1945 as President of the Local Council and held this office until 1946. At the same time, he became a member again in 1945 of the National Assembly and was a member of Parliament until 1958.
On January 26, 1946, he was appointed Minister of the Interior in the government of Prime Minister Félix Gouin, whose cabinet he was a member until the end of his term on June 24, 1946. He was later Minister of Defense from December 16, 1946 to January 22, 1947 in the third government of Léon Blum.
On January 12, 1954, he became President of the National Assembly for the first time and held this office for almost exactly one year until January 11, 1955. Between January 24, 1956 and October 4, 1958, he was again President of the National Assembly.
After suffering an electoral defeat in 1958, he resigned from the National Assembly and finally retired completely from political life in 1960. For his involvement in the 1959 ballets roses scandal, Le Troquer was tried and sentenced to probation and a fine.
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Édouard Herriot Pierre Schneiter |
President of the French National Assembly January 12, 1954 - January 11, 1955 January 24, 1956 - October 4, 1958 |
Pierre Schneiter Jacques Chaban-Delmas |
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| SURNAME | Le Troquer, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician (SFIO), member of the National Assembly |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Andilly (Val-d'Oise) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1963 |
| Place of death | Enghien-les-Bains , Val-d'Oise department , France |