Jean Sainteny
Jean Sainteny (born May 29, 1907 in Le Vésinet , † February 15, 1978 in Paris ) was a French politician and diplomat. In 1946, as part of the August Revolution with Ho Chi Minh, he negotiated a short-term standstill agreement ( March 6th Agreement ) between the French colonial power and the Vietnamese independence movement. From 1962 to 1966 he was Minister of Veterans, from 1968 to 1977 a member of the Conseil constitutionnel (constitutional court).
Life
Sainteny was the son-in-law of the influential politician and Prime Minister Albert Sarraut . During the Second World War , Sainteny was active in a leading position in the Resistance of Normandy .
Sainteny was parachuted to French Indochina in August 1945 with a group from the Office of Strategic Services . His mission was to contact the Viet Minh . The Viet Minh proclaimed an independent Vietnamese state as part of the August Revolution. Sainteny managed to negotiate a standstill agreement between the Viet Minh and France on March 6, 1946. Sainteny's goal of dividing the Viet Minh leadership into moderates and radicals did not succeed. Sainteny was injured in December 1946 when the armored car carrying him hit a mine.
As a representative of the Gaullist UNR-UDT , he was elected to the French National Assembly in 1962. In the second Pompidou government, Sainteny held the post of Minister of Veterans from 1962 to 1966. From 1968 to 1977 he was a member of the Conseil constitutionnel (constitutional court).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pierre Brocheux, Daniel Hémery: Indochina - An Ambiguous Colonization 1858 - 1954 , Berkeley, 2013, pp. 353, 357
- ↑ Stein Tonnesson: "Vietnam 1946", Berkeley, 2010, pp. 202, 217
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| SURNAME | Sainteny, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roger, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician and negotiator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Vésinet |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1978 |
| Place of death | Paris |