Georges Bidault

Georges-Augustin Bidault , born with Mills on October 5th, 1899, deceased with Cambo-the-Baths on January 26th, 1983, is a Résistant and a Politician French.

Biography

Before 1945

Born on October 5th, 1899 in Moulins (To combine), Georges Bidault makes his primary studies and secondaries in Italy of North, in the convent of Bollengo, occupied by French Jesuits driven out by the policy anticlerical of IIIe République. Its first political convictions seem to be forged by the reading of a biography of the liberal catholic Charles de Montalembert.

Laid off history at 18 years, it is received with the aggregation of history in 1925, with the rank of major, in front of Pierre Brossolette and Louis Joxe. Professor of history in Rheims between 1926 and 1931, it ties there close links with one of his pupils, the future sociologist Roger Caillois. In 1971, this one written in Bidault: The History is, by far, the least share of teaching than I received you. You learned to me well more on the side of the style and the conduit of life. Named in 1931 with the Louis-the-Large College, in Paris, it has as pupils the future journalist Jean Ferniot and the future writer Jean d' Ormesson. This last evokes later “the cold eloquence” of its professor and his “originality of spirit”.
Member of the catholic Association of French youth (ACJF) after the war, Bidault adheres to the popular Democratic party (PDP) in 1931. He is in April 1936 candidate of this party to the legislative elections, in the Flowering ash, but is beaten as of the first tour.
It is as leader-writer of the catholic daily newspaper the Paddle from 1934 that Bidault is made known.

He is made prisoner in 1940, he is released in his capacity as war veteran of the war of 1914-1918 in July 1941. He teaches then with the Lycée of the Park, with Lyon.

Resistant under the Occupation, in the network “Combat” with Lyon, it succeeds Jean Moulin in June 1943, like chair National council of Resistance. In its clandestine work, it is helped by its particulate secretary Laure Diebold.

Post-war period

The August 26th, at the time of the procession of the Release of Paris, Bidault descends the Fields-Élysées to the sides from the de Gaulle general. It is one of the founders of MRP (he is honorary president in 1952). It becomes appointed the Loire in 1945, mandate which it keeps until 1962.

From September 1944 in June 1954, it belongs to many governments, often in load of the Foreign affairs. It chairs by twice the Government council from June in December 1946 and October 1949 in July 1950.

It is one of the signatories of the Franco-British treated of Dunkirk in 1947. Vis-a-vis the “blow of Prague” and to the blockade of Berlin, it leads a policy anticommunist. In 1948, it signs the treated of Brussels instituting the Western European Union. It is favorable to CED while negotiating additional protocols which limit the supranational range of the treaty.

In August 1953, he plays a big role in the deposition of the sultan of the Morocco. He is candidate with the presidency of the Republic at the time of the two first turns in December 1953.

The colonial policy

Bidault criticizes the Indochinese policy of Pierre Mendès France in 1954 and the North-African policy of Edgar Faure in 1955. He is opposed to any creation of an Algerian executive in 1957. In 1958, he votes the nomination of the government of the de Gaulle general. He separates from the MRP and creates the Christian Democrat of France which will have only one limited electoral success. He is one of the 80 deputies who vote the “Salan amendment” according to which the government can proceed to calls under the flags of the French citizens pertaining to the availability and the first reserve domiciled in Algeria.

The May 20th 1962 with Rome, Georges Bidault, Jacques Soustelle, Antoine Argoud and Pierre Sergent constitute the executive committee of the National council of resistance (CNR), aiming at defending French Algeria, and designate Georges Bidault as president.

In July 1962 the shortly after the independence of the Algeria, the parliamentary privilege of Georges Bidault is raised to have founded a “C.N.R. abroad”. It leaves France in 1963 like political refugee. Carrying out a clandestine life, and learning the removal of the colonel Antoine Argoud with Munich by men from the French special services, Georges Bidault publishes a virulent article and is immediately expelled of Germany towards the Portugal which in its turn expels it towards the Brésil, where it will pass more than four years with his wife Suzanne. Of return in Belgium in 1967 before returning to France in June 1968. It created then the movement Justice and Liberté , which will be one of the components of the National front to its creation, party which he will leave shortly after.

Others

Georges Bidault married Suzanne Borel, first woman to have been to advise of embassy and which became assistant editor of its cabinet. Suzanne Borel largely inspired the character of “Miss Crapotte” in the autobiographical novel of Roger Peyrefitte the End of the embassies .

It was buried with That-the-Border It in the Yvelines.

Governmental functions

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