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Édouard Herriot

Édouard Herriot

Édouard Marie Herriot (French: [edwaʁ ɛʁjo]; 5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and for many years as President of the Chamber of Deputies.[1] He was leader of the first Cartel des Gauches.

Hérriot was born at Troyes, France on 5 July 1872. He served as Mayor of Lyon from 1905 until his death, except for a brief period from 1940 to 1945, when he was exiled to Germany for opposing the Vichy regime. As mayor, Herriot improved relations between municipal government and local unions, increased public assistance funds, and launched an urban renewal programme,[2] amongst other measures. He died in Lyon on 26 March 1957.[1] He is buried at the Cimetière de Loyasse.

Édouard Herriot
66th Prime Minister of France
In office
15 June 1924 – 17 April 1925
Preceded byFrédéric François-Marsal
Succeeded byPaul Painlevé
In office
20 July 1926 – 23 July 1926
Preceded byAristide Briand
Succeeded byRaymond Poincaré
In office
3 June 1932 – 18 December 1932
Preceded byAndré Tardieu
Succeeded byJoseph Paul-Boncour
Personal details
Born
Édouard Marie Herriot

5 July 1872
Died26 March 1957(1957-03-26)(aged 84)
Political partyRadical
Spouse(s)Blanche Rebatel (1877–1962)

Herriot's First Ministry, 14 June 1924 – 17 April 1925

  • Édouard Herriot - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs

  • Charles Nollet - Minister of War

  • Camille Chautemps - Minister of the Interior

  • Étienne Clémentel - Minister of Finance

  • Justin Godart - Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions

  • René Renoult - Minister of Justice

  • Jacques-Louis Dumesnil - Minister of Marine

  • François Albert - Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts

  • Édouard Amédée Bovier-Lapierre - Minister of Pensions

  • Henri Queuille - Minister of Agriculture

  • Édouard Daladier - Minister of Colonies

  • Victor Peytral - Minister of Public Works

  • Eugène Raynaldy - Minister of Commerce and Industry

  • Victor Dalbiez - Minister of Liberated Regions

Changes

  • 3 April 1925 - Anatole de Monzie succeeds Clémentel as Minister of Finance.

Herriot's Second Ministry, 19–23 July 1926

  • Édouard Herriot - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs

  • Paul Painlevé - Minister of War

  • Camille Chautemps - Minister of the Interior

  • Anatole de Monzie - Minister of Finance

  • Louis Pasquet - Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions

  • Maurice Colrat - Minister of Justice

  • René Renoult - Minister of Marine

  • Édouard Daladier - Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts

  • Georges Bonnet - Minister of Pensions

  • Henri Queuille - Minister of Agriculture

  • Adrien Dariac - Minister of Colonies

  • Orly André-Hesse - Minister of Public Works

  • Louis Loucheur - Minister of Commerce and Industry

Herriot's Third Ministry, 3 June – 18 December 1932

  • Édouard Herriot - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs

  • Joseph Paul-Boncour - Minister of War

  • Camille Chautemps - Minister of the Interior

  • Louis Germain-Martin - Minister of Finance

  • Maurice Palmade - Minister of Budget

  • Albert Dalimier - Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions

  • René Renoult - Minister of Justice

  • Georges Leygues - Minister of Marine

  • Léon Meyer - Minister of Merchant Marine

  • Paul Painlevé - Minister of Air

  • Anatole de Monzie - Minister of National Education

  • Aimé Berthod - Minister of Pensions

  • Abel Gardey - Minister of Agriculture

  • Albert Sarraut - Minister of Colonies

  • Édouard Daladier - Minister of Public Works

  • Justin Godart - Minister of Public Health

  • Henri Queuille - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones

  • Julien Durand - Minister of Commerce and Industry

Denial of the Holodomor

The height of denial of the Holodomor was reached during a visit to Ukraine carried out between 26 August and 9 September 1933 by Herriot, who had recently left the French Prime Ministry. Herriot denied accounts of the famine and said that Soviet Ukraine was "like a garden in full bloom".[3]

Furthermore, he announced to the press that there was no famine in Ukraine, that he did not see any trace of hunger, and that the allegations of starving millions were being spread by adversaries of the Soviet Union. "When one believes that the Ukraine is devastated by famine, allow me to shrug my shoulders", he declared. The 13 September 1933 issue of Pravda was able to write that Herriot "categorically contradicted the lies of the bourgeoisie press in connection with a famine in the USSR."[4]

Political career

Governmental functions

Président of the Council of Ministers : 1924–1925 / 19–21 July 1926 / June–December 1932.

Minister of Transport, Public Works and Supply : 1916–1917.

Minister of Education and Fine Arts : 1926–1928.

Minister of Foreign Affairs : 1924–1925 / 19–21 July 1926 / June–December 1932.

Minister of State : 1934–1936.

Electoral mandates

National Assembly of France

President of the National Assembly of France : 1947–1954.

Member of the National Assembly of France for Rhône (department) : 1946–1957 (He died in 1957). Elected in 1946, reelected in 1951, 1956.

Constitutional Assembly

Member of the Constitutional Assembly for Rhône (department) : 1945–1946. Elected in 1945, reelected in June 1946.

Chamber of Deputies of France

President of the Chamber of Deputies of France : 1925–1926 / 1936–1940.

Member of the Chamber of Deputies of France for Rhône (department) : 1919–1942 (Dissolution of Parliament by Philippe Petain in 1942). Elected in 1919, reelected in 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936.

Senate of France

Senator of Rhône : 1912–1919. Elected in 1911.

General council

General councillor of Rhône (department) : 1945–1951.

Municipal Council

Mayor of Lyon : 1905–1940 (Deposition by Vichy regime in 1940) / 1945–1957 (He died in 1957). Reelected in 1908, 1912, 1919, 1925, 1929, 1935, 1945, 1947, 1953.

Municipal councillor of Lyon : 1904–1940 (Deposition by the Vichy regime in 1940) / 1945–1957 (He died in 1957). Reelected in 1908, 1912, 1919, 1925, 1929, 1935, 1945, 1947, 1953.

Political functions

President of the Radical Party (France) : 1919–1926 / 1931–1936 / 1948–1953 / 1955–1957.

Legacy

Herriot was declared an honorary citizen of the city of Veliki Bečkerek (today Zrenjanin) in 1933. There is also a street with his name in Zrenjanin.

His visit to a church in Kiev, where a fake religious service was organized for the occasion, is described in "The Mechanical Lions", one of the stories from the book A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš.

Eoghan Herriot of Scotland Is a distant relative.

See also

  • Fair of Lyon

  • Interwar France

References

[1]
Citation Linkquery.nytimes.com"Herriot Is Dead. French Leader, 84". The New York Times. March 27, 1957. Retrieved 2015-01-07. Three-Time Premier, Radical Party Power, Was Scholar and Member of Academy. Hoped to Defeat E.D.C. Plan '54. Long Urged Nation Pay War Debts to U.S. Tributes From Leaders National Funeral Urged Widely Known in U.S. Became Premier in 1924. Abstained From Vote. Edouard Herriot, French statesman, party leader, scholar and author who had become a symbol of the premier Third Republic, died today at the age of 84. ...
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[2]
Citation Linkbooks.google.comStone, Judith F. (8 April 1985). "The Search for Social Peace: Reform Legislation in France, 1890–1914". SUNY Press. Retrieved 8 April 2018 – via Google Books.
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Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgNicolas Werth, Karel Bartošek, Jean-Louis Panné, Jean-Louis Margolin, Andrzej Paczkowski, Stéphane Courtois, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-674-07608-7, pages 159–160
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Citation Linkwww.holodomorct.org""France, Germany and Austria facing the famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine"" (PDF). holodomorct.org. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
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Citation Linkpurl.orgNewspaper clippings about Édouard Herriot
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Citation Linkquery.nytimes.com"Herriot Is Dead. French Leader, 84"
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Citation Linkbooks.google.com"The Search for Social Peace: Reform Legislation in France, 1890–1914"
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Citation Linkwww.holodomorct.org""France, Germany and Austria facing the famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine""
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Citation Linkpurl.orgNewspaper clippings about Édouard Herriot
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