Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot

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Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot, 1940

Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot (born May 13, 1886 in Paris ; † October 9, 1970 ibid) was a French doctor and politician and is the grandson of Louis Pasteur .

He is the child of René Vallery-Radot and Marie-Louise Pasteur . After his participation in the First World War he successfully studied medicine in Paris and in 1939 became a full professor at the medical clinic of the University of Paris . His two main areas of research extended to special forms of allergy ( anaphylaxis ) and kidney disease.

During the Second World War , Pasteur Vallery-Radot joined the Resistance and founded the medical committee of the resistance movement. The French Committee for National Liberation appointed him Secretary General for Health in 1944, which task he took over during the uprising in Paris after the invasion.

In the late 1940s, worked at the Broussais Hospital in Paris.

Pasteur Vallery-Radot joined the Rassemblement du peuple français and became a member of its executive committee. In 1951 he won a seat for this party in the National Assembly , but gave up his mandate after a year.

From 1959 to 1965 he was a member of the Conseil constitutionnel and participated as a representative of the Chapter of the Legion of Honor in various trials against those who received this award, for example the trial of Raoul Salan .

Pasteur Vallery-Radot was born with Jacqueline Gohierre de Longchamp and died on October 9, 1970 at the age of 84 in Paris.

Memberships and honors

  • since 1944 member of the Academie Française and the Medical Academy
  • President of the Board of Directors of the Pasteur Institute
  • Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honor
  • Numerous universities have awarded him an honorary doctorate.

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personal data
SURNAME Vallery-Radot, Louis Pasteur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1970
Place of death Paris