Augustin Beauverger

Augustin Beauverger (born May 9, 1910 in Châtelaudren , Département Côtes-d'Armor , † September 14, 1972 in Fougères ) was a French politician. From 1971 to 1972 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Early life

Beauverger was the descendant of a family that had already produced several doctors. He also decided to study medicine after graduating from high school and began to work in a hospital in Rennes after completing this degree . When the Second World War broke out in 1939 , he was drafted. After the occupation of France by Germany, he joined the Resistance in 1940 . For his services during this time he was later awarded the Croix de Guerre ; Beauverger was also a member of the Legion of Honor . After the liberation of the country, he worked as a surgeon and then as a freelance doctor in Fougères.

Political career

In 1947 Beauverger joined the Gaullist Rassemblement du peuple français party . For this he succeeded in moving into the council of Fougères in 1953. In addition, he was appointed as the party's delegate in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in 1955 . A year later, he entered the parliamentary elections on the list of Gaullists in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, but did not make it into the National Assembly. Beauverger welcomed Charles de Gaulle's takeover in 1958 and joined the new Gaullist party, Union pour la Nouvelle République, that same year . From 1967 he was deputy of the MP Michel Cointat , who represented the fifth constituency of the Ille-et-Vilaine department. After he had been appointed Minister of Agriculture, Beauverger moved to Parliament on February 9, 1971. He died in September 1972 before his mandate expired. This remained vacant until March 1973, when Cointat won it again in a by-election.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Base de données historique des anciens députés , assemblee-nationale.fr