Léon Bérard

Léon Bérard

Léon Bérard (born January 6, 1876 in Sauveterre-de-Béarn , † February 24, 1960 in Paris ), lawyer and writer, was a conservative French politician of the Third French Republic .

After studying law in Paris, Bérard received his doctorate in 1900 and became a lawyer. From 1904 to 1908 he was mayor of his hometown. In 1907 he was elected to the General Council for the Canton Sauveterre and held a seat there until 1940. In 1910 he successfully competed in the elections to the French Chamber of Deputies and was a member of various republican parliamentary groups.

Under Georges Clemenceau's government , he headed the Ministry of Education from November 27, 1919 until the end of the reign on January 18, 1920. He was reappointed education minister on January 16, 1921 and held the post until March 29, 1924. In 1927 he was elected to the Senate for the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department , where he remained until 1940. From March 27, 1931 to February 20, 1932 and from June 7, 1935 to January 24, 1936 he was again a member of the government, when he headed the Ministry of Justice under four different governments of Pierre Laval .

On July 10, 1940, he voted in favor of Pétain's authorization to draw up a new constitution and was appointed ambassador to the Holy See in October 1940 . He returned to France in 1946, but no longer took part in political life and worked as an author, lawyer and at the Académie française , into which he was accepted in 1934.

The Center Léon Bérard , a cancer research center in Lyon, is named after Léon Bérard .

Works

• Pour la réforme classique de l'enseignement secondaire (1923)
• Au service de la pensée française (1925)

Web links

Commons : Léon Bérard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)

predecessor	Office	successor
Georges Pernot	Minister of Justice of France June 7, 1935 - June 4, 1936	Marc Rucart