Joseph-Paul Rambaud

Joseph-Paul Rambaud is a doctor and a French politician born on December 5th, 1879 with Pamiers (Ariège) and dead on October 17th, 1944 with Buchenwald.

Biography

Joseph-Paul Rambaud makes his studies of medicine to Toulouse, then turns over in his birthplace to exert, in 1904.

He adheres to the Radical party becomes president of the radical committee of Pamiers in 1905. In 1919, he is elected mayor and general adviser of Pamiers, and constantly re-elected until 1940. He makes carry out the integral electrification of the canton. In 1925, he becomes president of the departmental federation of the Radical party.

In 1929, Joseph-Paul Rambaud is elected senator, and is re-elected, as of the first turn, in 1938. He belongs to the commission of Hygiene, the insurance and the social welfare; at the commission of the general and communal Administration; commission of the army; then at the commission of the Accounts Department. He undertakes an intense parliamentary activity, by his reports/ratios, his interventions at the time of the debates, and his questions with the ministers.

July 10th, 1940, Joseph-Paul Rambaud vote against the full powerss with Philippe Pétain, which is worth to him to be revoked of its local mandates by the Régime of Vichy. It enters then the Résistance, within the movement Combat. It founds the secret Armée in Ariège. It also brings its assistance to young refractories to the Service of obligatory work and to the people interned in the camp of Vernet.

June 17th, 1944, Joseph-Paul Rambaud is stopped, then off-set with Buchenwald, where he dies a few months later.

Decoration

Sources

  • Jean Jolly (to dir.), Dictionary of the French members of Parliament , university Presses of France
  • Biography on line on the site of the Senate

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