Louis Barthou
Louis Barthou (born August 25, 1862 in Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department , † October 9, 1934 in Marseille ) was a French politician of the Third Republic .
Life
Barthou initially completed a legal education, but soon went into politics. In 1889 he became a member of the “center right” in the French parliament for the first time . From 1894 he was repeatedly minister and was French Prime Minister from March to December 1913 . In this function, in view of the German armament and against the resistance of the political left, he pushed through an extension of the conscription to three years. On May 2, 1918 he was elected to the Académie française . In 1922 he moved to the Senate . From 1922 to 1926 he was chairman of the Reparations Commission .
As France's foreign minister from 1934, Barthou strove for a system of treaties with states in Eastern Europe ( Pacte de l'Est ) and initiated the signing of a Franco-Soviet treaty . Through this, as well as rapprochement with Great Britain and Italy, he wanted to diplomatically isolate the “Third Reich”. With the rapprochement with the Soviet Union, he came into contradiction to right-wing circles.
On October 9, 1934, he was in an attack on the Yugoslav King I. Alexander killed. He was on a state visit in Marseilles and was received there by Barthou. Shortly after the assassin shot Vlado Chernozemski the king in a Landaulet of Delage . Both a specific Delage Type DM and a Delage Type D.8 are mentioned. Louis Barthou was also seriously injured in the exchange of fire. He died about an hour after the attack in the Marseille hospital and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris .
Works
- Mirabeau
- Lamartine orateur
- Thiers et la loi Falloux
- Amours d'un poète
- Danton
literature
- Vladeta Milićević : The regicide of Marseille. The crime and its background . Hohwacht-Verlag, Bad Godesberg 1959.
- Robert Young: Power and Pleasure: Louis Barthou and the Third French Republic. Mcgill Queens University Press , Montreal 1991 ISBN 0773508635
- Pouvoir et passions. Louis Barthou et la troisième république transl. Jean-François Saget. Marrimpouey, Pau 2012 ISBN 2853021645
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis Barthou in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Louis Barthou in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Louis Barthou on the cover of Time Magazine September 24, 1934
- Louis Barthou and King Alexander I moments before the attack in which both were killed
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Volume 1. Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 , pp. 274 (English).
- ↑ Chroniques marseillaises des années trente (French, accessed February 8, 2020)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barthou, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oloron-Sainte-Marie |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 1934 |
| Place of death | Marseille |