Philippe Lamour

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Philippe Lamour (1903 - 1992) is a Politician French.

He passes his childhood in North and with Paris where he made his studies of right. He then engages in the Beam of Georges Valois, French movement fascistic at the same time nationalist and socialist, until 1928. He in vain tries to found the Parti fascistic revolutionist. He adheres to the Parti Breton separatist in 1928 and takes part with François Debauvais and Olier Mordrel in the countryside of Goulven Mazéas in 1930. He is at the time a young impassioned Parisian lawyer of sociology. He will be during four years the adviser of Breiz Atao and his appointed speaker.

He founds the review Plans in 1931 of which he is editor association. He is then close to the group of young intellectuals who create the group New Ordre. In a teaching concern, it takes part in the translation of Mein Kampf, in order to inform the French of the threat which the Nazism constitutes. It goes until making a false interview of Hitler for which it will be condemned to pay frank a symbolic system of damage to the chancellor.

After the adventure of Plans finished in 1933, it is devoted to its trade, lawyer, without to ignore the policy: he is unfortunate candidate for Sens (Yonne) in the coalition of the Popular front at the time of the legislative elections of 1936. He highly criticizes the attitude of the authorities during the war and denounces the Régime of Vichy which is the cause. Nauseated by the defeat, it ignores the policy: it decides to leave Paris and its vibrating life, and to settle in the countryside with its family, in the Bourbonnais, to become farmer. It is a new life which starts and which will inspire certain ideas to him on agriculture.

After the Release, it engages “with the service of the rectification of France”: he becomes the assistant of Jacques Bounin, Commissaire of the Republic in Montpellier. He appears resolutely anchored then on the left and then wishes to link the French around some strong ideas. He is elected general secretary of the General confederation of Agriculture, he enters to the National council of the Credit and the United Nations for Agriculture. These experiments (in particular in Italy) inspire a great project of economic development to him and it takes part in the rebirth of the the Camargue by rice growing. From 1955, Philippe Lamour is the president of the National company of installation of the Low-Rhone and Languedoc where he undertook a work of scale in the field of the irrigation. It is following a project worked out by him in 1962, whereas it chaired the Superior council of the Construction which the policy of town and country planning of Ve République was committed. Presidency of the National Commission of Town and country planning, he will thus play a determining role in the implementation of the plan of Town and country planning of 1962 and in the creation of DATAR in 1963. Philippe Lamour on television directs an emission on town and country planning entitled " 60 million Français". It is under the same title that it publishes in 1967 a book recalling this vast experiment. It remains with the DATAR until in 1974. Out of France, it is consulting Funds special of the United Nations for the countries of Africa and South America, and the Company of the Low-Rhone was seen entrusting work abroad, in particular in Algeria and Romania.

Quotation

" Town and country planning is the instrument of a modern democracy (...) a modern democracy must be a virile democracy. Town and country planning offers the sphere of activity and the possibility of its blooming to him. It is not the policy of a group, a government or a mode. It is the work of the nation, a permanent work which overflows the immediate concern. It is the crusade of all the French for the conquest and the construction of their future. It is the new expression of the civique." spirit;

60 million French , Buchet/Chastel, Paris, 1967, pp.287-288

Publications

the Republic of the producers 1926,
Talks under the Tower Eiffel 1929,
60 million French 1967 (Buchet/Chastel),
the sundial , 1979.

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