Gilles Gozard

Gilles Gozard (born April 24, 1910 in Moulins , † May 13, 1976 in Paris ) was a French politician. From 1946 to 1958 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Early life

After graduating from high school, Gozard went to Paris to study business administration at the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris . He also studied human sciences and law. In the latter, he also achieved a doctorate. He then worked at the Paris Court of Appeal from 1933. After the outbreak of World War II , Gozard was drafted into the Air Force. A few months after the French defeat, he joined the Resistance in January 1941 . His reputation within the movement would have enabled him to become head of the Resistance in the Allier department in 1943 . However, Gozard decided to stay in Paris. In 1947 he was awarded the Croix de Guerre for his services during the war .

Political career

Gozard, who had joined the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière in 1930 , ran for this in the first regular elections after the war in June 1946. Even if this candidacy failed, he succeeded in entering the National Assembly in the next election in November 1946 . He achieved this in the Allier department, where he was born. In 1947 he was also able to move into the municipal council of his native Moulins. Gozard was re-elected as a member of parliament in 1951 and 1956 and took over the office of party secretary in the Allier department in the 1950s. In 1956 he was also elected to the General Council of this department. After leaving parliament in 1958, Gozard, who was relatively close to the conservative President Charles de Gaulle , left the SFIO in 1962. He held his last major office from 1969 to 1970, when he was a member of the French Economic and Social Council. The politician, who died in 1976, was a holder of the Ordre national du Mérite and an officer of the Legion of Honor .

Individual evidence

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