Jean Michard-Pellissier

Jean Lucien Victor Michard-Pellissier (born October 3, 1909 in Gap , Département Hautes-Alpes , † October 31, 1976 in Paris ) was a French lawyer who was a member of the Constitutional Council ( Conseil constitutionnel ) between 1959 and 1968 .

Life

Michard-Pellissier completed a law degree after attending school , which he completed with a doctorate in law . He completed further studies at the École libre des sciences politiques with a diploma and began his professional career in 1931 when he was admitted as a lawyer at the Court of Appeal (Cour d'Appel) in Paris.

In the mid-1930s he began his political career alongside and was elected on April 26, 1936 as a candidate of the independent left (gauche indépendante) member of the National Assembly, in which he officially represented the Hautes-Alpes department until May 31, 1942. He was also a member of the General Council of the Hautes-Alpes department between 1936 and 1940 . On July 10, 1940, he initially voted for the appointment of Philippe Pétain authoritarian head of state (Chef de l'État) , but shortly afterwards he joined the Resistance movement .

After the end of the Second World War he was re-elected to the National Assembly in 1947 and was a member of it until 1951. During this time he was also vice-president of the office of the executive committee of the Radical Party (Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste) and adviser to the Union française , which in the course of the decolonization after the Second World War with the aim of reshaping the French colonial empire along the lines to transform the British Commonwealth of Nations was established. He was also mayor of Soulac-sur-Mer , a small municipality in the Gironde department on the Atlantic coast, between 1953 and 1959 .

On February 20, 1959, Michard-Pellissier was nominated by the President of the National Assembly Jacques Chaban-Delmas for a nine-year term as a member of the Constitutional Council, the Conseil constitutionnel . He held this position from March 5, 1959 to March 5, 1968.

During this time he was also a member of the city council of Antibes between 1965 and 1971 and was one of the defenders in the trial of the Marseilles ' mafia ' boss Barthélemy Guérini in 1970 .

In March 1971 he was finally appointed official advisor to the staff of Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas, who was a longtime friend of his.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly
• Entry on the homepage of the Court constitutionnel