Leon Christmas (politician)

Leon Christmas , French politician, born the March 28th 1888 in Paris, deceased the August 6th 1987 with Toucy (Yonne).

Biography

Wire of a To advise State, he is doctor in right in 1912. Listener with the Council of State in 1913, it is, of 1912 with 1914, principal private secretary of Maurice Colrat de Montrozier, deputy and minister. He turns over to the Council of State where he is Maître of the requests of 1924 with 1926.

He is Haut-Commissaire of France in the Rhineland in 1927, then he became prefect of Haut-Rhin in 1930. Director of the General security and general secretary of the ministry for the Interior in 1931 directing then of the cabinet of the President of the Council Pierre-Etienne Flandin, his cousin, then of Pierre Laval in 1932, it is then Ambassador plenipotentiary in Czechoslovakia of 1932 with 1935 then Ambassadeur in Poland of 1935 with 1940.

Invited in June 1940 to sit, like representative of the foreign affairs, in the armistice council which the general Huntziger directs, it will refuse to affix its paraph with the bottom of the signed armistices Franco-German and Franco-Italian with Rethondes and Rome in the presence of Hitler and of the general Badoglio.

Named delegated in the occupied territories the July 9th 1940, it resigned ten days later and joins with de Gaulle in 1943. It passes the war withdrawn to Toucy, where the FF will come to stop it at the time of the Release. After the war, He becomes member of the board of directors of several companies: Rhône-Poulenc, the company Esso-Standard, of the South and various insurance company Railroads.

It rejoins RPF, chairs its commission of the foreign affairs, sits at its National council and is made elect Député RPF of the Yonne of 1951 with 1955. He writes Our last chance i.e. de Gaulle. He is the first President of the Constitutional council of 1959 with 1965. He expresses doubts on the constitutionality of the project of revision of the Constitution aiming at founding the election of the president of the Republic by the universal direct suffrage without passing by the parliamentary way.

In her Memories of hope , de Gaulle writes in this connection: “All that a vast legal experiment can offer, administrative, diplomatic and political, when she is united with the value of a spirit of scale and the heat of a patriot, Leon Christmas brings it to the opinions that he gives me on the operation of our new institutions. ”

Member of the Academy of Science morals and political in 1944, it chairs it in 1958.

Member of the Company of Historical and Natural Sciences of Yonne in 1927, he becomes president (1946-1956) about it then honorary president until his death.

Large friend of the poet Marie Christmas.

Works

One owes him in particular:
  • the German Aggression against Poland (1946)
  • the Councils with a young French entering the diplomacy (1948)
  • Testimony of a chief, the general Guillaumat (1949)
  • ministerial instability in France (1955)
  • Our last chance (1956)
  • Comprendre de Gaulle (1972)
  • the Illusions of Stressed (1975)
  • De Gaulle and the beginnings of Ve République (1976)
  • the War of 39 began four years earlier (1979)

Articles or studies concerning the regional field

In the bulletin of the Company of Historical and Natural Sciences of Yonne:

  • Gilon de Toucy, cardinal papal legate in XIIe, 1941, p. 22.

  • the battle of Fontenoy, 1941, p. 65-76.
  • Cambon and Yonne, 1946, p. 40-41.
  • a speudo-council of Toucy, 1946, p. 48.
  • a document on Great fear in Yonne, 1947, p. 3.
  • a enigma in connection with Jeanne d' Arc, 1948, p. 37.
  • Note on the life and work of Mr. Arthur de Vathaire de Guerchy, 1952, p. 21-32.
  • In connection with the air raids of June 15th, 1940, 1954, p. 45-50.
  • Two Resident of Auxerre in Rome of Pie IX in 1851,1957, p. 21-31.
  • About the bombardments of Auxerre in 1940,1959, p. 327.
  • the revolution of 1848 sight by a Resident of Auxerre, 1959, p. 9-28.
  • Reprimand of the cardinal of Fleury with Mgr of Caylus, Congress of ABS, 1962.

Other publications:

  • Gilon de Toucy, cardinal prelate of the pope, Bulletin of the Survey firm of Tonnerrois, 1962, p. 36-39.

  • Arthur de Vathaire de Guerchy, Annals of Burgundy, 1952, p. 134-139.
  • Vauban, servant of France, Bulletin of the Survey firm of Avallon, 1953, p. 8-12.
  • Foreword of the work of the Noirot abbot, History of the department of Yonne like diocese, 1979.

Decorations

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