Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour

Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour (1907 - 1989) was a lawyer and Politician French nationalist. He was candidate with the French presidential election of 1965, during which he had Jean-Marie Le Pen as campaign director.

He obtained the December 5th 1965 1.260.208 votes, that is to say 5,2% of the votes, arriving in fourth position behind de Gaulle, Mitterrand and Lecanuet.

Biography

Born the October 12th 1907 with Paris VII {{E}}, its civil statue, with the birth, was “Jean Louis Gilbert Tixier”, wire of Leon Tixier and Andree Vignancour. It carried quickly, as of its accession with the bar, the Nom of use “Tixier-Vignancour”. It however was authorized, by decree in Council of State, the October 19th 1987, to make modify its patronymic name to make it coincide with the name of use carried hitherto.

Its death, the September 29th 1989 with Paris VII {{E}}, was thus declared under its name of use become its patronymic name.

He married in first weddings with Paris VI {{E}} the January 19th 1938 Jeannine Auriol (1915 - died), then in second weddings with Neuilly-sur-Seine the March 2nd 1988 Jacqueline Lecronier.

Deputy of the the Low-Pyrenees (auj. Yrénées-Atlantiques) of 1936 with 1940, he is assistant general secretary with the Information of the French State of the Vichy government of 1940 with 1941.

He is re-elected appointed in 1956 and sits at the National Assembly during the two last years of IVe République. He is registered with no parliamentary group and is presented in the form of a candidate on a “republican list of social action and country”.

It defends, in 1962, good number of persons in charge of the secret armed Organization (OAS), among which the general Raoul Salan, to which it avoids the judgment with the capital punishment at the end of a pleading recognized like one great moment of the legal eloquence.

In 1965, he is candidate of the Extrême right-hand side with the presidential election vis-a-vis the de Gaulle general; its campaign director is Jean-Marie Le Pen. Highly reproaching de Gaulle the “abandonment” of the Algeria, it invites with the second turn to vote for François Mitterrand.

It essuie a severe failure with the legislative elections of March 1967 in Toulon.

Following the events of May 1968, it is joined the de Gaulle general then invites to vote for Georges Pompidou with the presidential election of 1969 and encourages its partisans to adhere to UDR for “droitiser the line”.

He wants to be during a few years the representative of the part on the right of the majority.

In June 1979, it takes the chief candidate Eurodroite, made up in France by the Parti the new forces (the NFP), with the first European elections by the vote for all.

Principal Pleadings (political matters)

the business of the escapes in 1956.
Offenses made to the president of the republic by the weekly magazine Rivarol in 1959.
the lawsuit of the Week of the barricades in 1960.
the defense of the General Salan in 1962.
the lawsuit of the Attack of the Petit-Clamart in 1963.

Works

betrayed France, pleading of Me Tixier-Vignancour in the Business of the escapes, with foreword and extracts of the lawsuit . Paris: Amiot-Dumont, 1956. 199 pages. No the ISBN.
Pleading for Salan . 2 discs 33 turns 30 cm. Coll “Large documents of the History”, not of name of editor nor of date.
I chose defense . Paris: The roundtable, 1964.
Of the Republics, justices and the men: memories . Paris: Albin Michel, 1977. 410 pages. ISBN 2-226-00382-7.
Against-badly French . Paris: Albin Michel, 1977. 269 pages. ISBN 2-226-00561-7.
If I had defended Dreyfus . Paris: Jean-Claude Simoën, coll “Red and black”, 1978. 182 pages. No the ISBN.

Quotations

“Tixier-Vignancour, it is Vichy, the proud Collaboration of itself, the Milice, OAS. ” (Charles de Gaulle)

Random links: