Gabriel Valay
Gabriel Valay (born September 17, 1905 in Salon-de-Provence , † March 13, 1978 in Avignon ) was a French politician. From 1946 to 1951 he was a member of the National Assembly .
Valay was born the fifth of eight children to the doctor Louis Valay from Salon-de-Provence. His mother was a relative of the Nobel Prize winner for literature, Frédéric Mistral . In 1919 the family moved to Saint-Rémy-de-Provence . In the 1930s he joined a Christian Democratic party. In the elections to the Constituent National Assembly of 1945, he failed to enter parliament as second on the list. In 1946 he succeeded in entering parliament. From December 2, 1949 to June 29, 1950 he was France's Minister of Agriculture. Possibly also because he had left Saint-Rémy in 1947 to live in the posh Parisian suburb of Le Vésinet , he was not re-elected in 1951. He then worked in the leadership department of the party MRP . From 1956 he worked again in Saint-Rémy, until his retirement in 1970. After a renewed candidacy in 1958, he finally gave up politics. Until 1966 he was chairman of the Avignon Cultural Center, where he settled on his return from Le Vésinet. At the request of his friend Germaine Poinso-Chapuis , he was appointed representative of the Association des paralysés de France . Valay died on March 13, 1978 in Avignon.
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| SURNAME | Valay, Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician, member of the National Assembly |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th September 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salon-de-Provence |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1978 |
| Place of death | Avignon |