Henry Bergasse

See also: Bergasse

Henry-Emmanuel Bergasse is a French politician born the September 26th 1894 with Marseilles and deceased the March 28th 1977 in its birthplace.

Raise École of Saint-Cyr military school, it is wounded in 1915 on the face of the East. Military attach3e in Greece, it embraces the occupation of lawyer at the bar of Marseilles. He takes part in the Résistance and takes part in 1944 to the release of Royan.

He is elected with the second constituent National Assembly in 1946 then with the National Assembly under the labels PRL, RPF, ARS and CNI. He sits at the Palate-Bourbon of 1946 to 1962. He is Minister for the War veterans and war victims from January 8th to June 28th, 1953 in the Gouvernement Rene Mayer. One of the 27 RPF to have voted the nomination of Antoine Pinay, it chairs the group members of Parliament ARS (dissenting gaullists) of 1953 to 1955.

In its History of IVe Republic , Georgette Elgey brings back the truculent testimony of Roger Duchet on the circumstances of the accession of Henry Bergasse to the ministry for the War veterans. Joined together in the office of Rene Mayer, several celebrities of the new government distribute the wallets. By misfortune, it proves that Paul Ribeyre, appointed Ardèche, initially had a presentiment of to defend the war veterans, did not obtain the Légion of honor to the combat. It is urgently advisable to replace it. The rogue's gallery of the deputies is opened, and one traverses it starting from letter A. Barrachin? Not, it is scrambled with de Gaulle. Bergasse? It is a “good-natured”. And here how, according to Roger Duchet, Henry Bergasse becomes minister “chosen not with the seniority, but with the alphabetical order”.

Henry Bergasse was city council man in Marseilles.

Decorations

Cross of the Legion of honor
Crix of war 1914-1919
Medal of Resistance
Military Cross 1939-1945

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