Jean Mazel

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Jean Mazel (born May 10, 1910 in Phnom Penh , † August 19, 1962 ) was a French politician. From 1945 to 1955 he was a member of the National Assembly .

Early life and war

Mazel was born to a French and a Cambodian woman in the colony of French Indochina . In France he obtained a doctorate in law and from then on worked as Avoué in Mende . With the outbreak of the Second World War he was drafted and later received the Croix de Guerre for his services . The Vichy regime appointed him after he came to power as a member of the City Council of Mende and the second deputy mayor. When he turned down a vote of confidence from Prime Minister Pierre Laval in 1942 , he then asked the Prefect of theLozère for his dismissal. Although he was not granted this, he joined the Resistance and was temporarily wanted by the police. For his services in the Resistance he was accepted into the Legion of Honor .

Political career

After the liberation of the country, he was elected mayor of Mende in 1945 and also to the general council of the Lozère department. For the Mouvement républicain populaire he entered the elections for the constituent national assembly in October 1945 and moved into it. In the elections for the second constituent national assembly in June and the first regular parliamentary elections in November 1946 he was re-elected. Within his party he held the office of chairman in the department, from which he resigned in 1948. In the following elections in 1951 he was elected to parliament for the Center national des indépendants et paysans . In 1953, at the municipal level, he formed a broad alliance of rights and socialists. A little later, he decided to move to Saint-Raphaël , which meant that he did not run again in the parliamentary elections in 1956 and at the same time withdrew from his other political offices. In Cambodia, where he was born, he worked as a political advisor to the government after the country gained independence. Mazel died there in 1962.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Base de données historique des anciens députés , assemblee-nationale.fr
  2. ↑ La Résistance en Lozère - Jean Mazel dit "Marchal" , lyceechaptal.fr
personal data
SURNAME Mazel, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Phnom Penh , French Indochina
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1962
Place of death Phnom Penh , Cambodia