Jean-Emmanuel Roy

Jean-Emmanuel Roy is a wine grower and a French politician born on June 16th, 1887 with Romagna (the Gironde) and dead on September 1st, 1962 with Naujan-and-Postiac (even department).

Biography

Jean-Emmanuel Roy is mobilized during the First World War, and its courage is worth to him to be several times decorated (see below).

In 1919, he is elected mayor of Neaujean-and-Postiac, and constantly re-elected until 1940. In 1930, he becomes general adviser, mandate which he also exerts until 1940. He is elected appointed (radical) in 1932, thanks to desistance, with the second turn, of the candidate of SFIO, and re-elected in 1936.

President of the interprofessional council of the wine, Jean-Emmnuel Roy sits at the commission of Drinks. He devotes mainly his parliamentary activity to the defense of the wine of quality, and he is, in particular, rapporteur of the wine statute of 1933. He intervenes at the time of all the debates concerning the wine. He is one of the principal writers of the laws on the pulling up of the vines and the regulation of names of controlled origin (AOC). In 1939, he is member of the international commission of the Agricultural activities and wine, as well as interdepartmental commission of the Wines.

July 10th, 1940, Jean-Emmanuel Roy vote against the full powerss with Philippe Pétain.

Decorations

Military Cross 1914-1918
Knight of the Legion of honor on a purely military basis
Four mentions in dispatches

Source

Jean Jolly (to dir.), Dictionary of the French members of Parliament , university Presses of France

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