Philippe Tightens

Philippe Serre is a French politician born on March 4th, 1901 with Paris and died on September 18th, 1991 in the same city.

Biography

Wire of a lawyer, Philippe Serre makes studies of right to faculty of Paris, until the Doctorat and follows the courses of the Private school of political sciences. He is registered at the bar of Paris and becomes lawyer attached to the Court of Appeal since 1927. From 1929 to 1930, he is secretary of the conference of lawyers. Its pacifist engagement makes him join the movement Démocrate-chrétien of Marc Sangnier, the Ligue of the Young Republic. In the side of this last, it takes part in many conferences on the problem of peace.

Candidate “independent of left” to the legislative elections of 1932 in Briey, it arrives, with the general surprise, to force the powerful Master of the forging mills, François de Wendel, constantly re-elected since 1914, with the ballotage, 53 votes only separating them. Following semi-failure, Wendel is made elect with the Senate at the end of 1932 to avoid a possible defeat with the following elections. Easily elected in April 1933 in the vacant left district, Philippe Serre is re-elected in 1936, as of the first turn, with the support of the Popular front. At the Room, it sits like independent of left and takes part in the commission of the general, departmental and communal Administration; at the commission of Teaching and fine arts; at the commission of Aeronautics; and at the board of inquiry into the Business Stavisky.

Bound to the colonel De Gaulle, it is one of the first to support the ideas of reorganization of national defense preached by this last.

It is named under-secretary of State to Work in the third Chautemps government (June 1937 - January 1938) and in the second government Blum (March-April 1938) like under-secretary of State to the presidency of the Council, responsible for the immigration department, in altered the Chautemps government (January-March 1938).

July 10th, 1940, Philippe Tightens vote against the full powerss with Philippe Pétain. Firmly opposed to the Vichy government, it engages in the Mouvement Resistance.

Post-war period, he refuses to join MRP. Insulated between the SFIO, which he considers too dogmatic, and this new party, too preserving to its taste, he gradually moves away from the political life.

Decoration

Commander of the Legion of honor
Medal of Resistance

Source

JOLLY Jean (to dir.), Dictionary of the French members of Parliament, 1889 to 1940 , university Presses of France
EL GAMMAL Jean (to dir.), Dictionary of the Lorraine members of Parliament of the Third Republic , Serpenoise Editions.

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