Camille Titeux

Camille Titeux (born March 5, 1910 in Gespunsart , Ardennes department , † July 3, 1978 in Revin ) was a French politician. From 1951 to 1958 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Early life

As the child of a working-class family from the Ardennes, Titeux had to start working in a factory at the age of eleven. When he was 18, he enlisted in the Navy for five years . Afterwards he worked again as a worker and in 1934 joined the SFIO , its youth organization and the CGT union at the same time . From 1935 to 1938 he was secretary of the Metalworkers Union in Revin. After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he was drafted into the Navy. In 1940 he was demobilized and lived briefly in Lourdes before returning to the Ardennes in February 1941, where he joined the Liberation-Nord resistance movement.

Political career

After the liberation, Titeux first became a member of the provisional council of Revin and in October 1944 its chairman. This was followed in May 1945 by the election of mayor of the municipality, which he remained until 1971. In addition, he entered the General Council of the Ardennes department in October of that year . Both in the elections in June and in those in October 1946, he ran in the Ardennes department, but failed to make it into parliament in both of them. In 1951, however, he was elected to the National Assembly. He was re-elected in the subsequent elections in 1956. In October 1956 he was elected deputy group leader of the Socialists, but resigned from this office in July 1957. In 1958, Titeux voted against the powers of attorney for Charles de Gaulle , but also spoke out against the establishment of the Fifth Republic and thus opposed the majority opinion in his party. In the parliamentary elections in November 1958, he was unsuccessful in being re-elected as a member of parliament. At the regional level, he was elected President of the General Council of the Ardennes Department on October 4, 1967. In 1971 he tried to return to national politics when he ran for a seat in the Senate . After a defeat in this election, he failed to be re-elected as a member of the General Council in 1973, which also ended his office as President. In 1974 by-elections, however, he returned to the General Council. He was represented there until he died on July 3, 1978.

Individual evidence

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