Théo Bretin

Louis Bretin known as Théo-Bretin is a French politician born the January 11th 1879 with Saint-Gengoux-the-National and deceased the September 12th 1956 with Chagny.

Théo-Bretin animates with the national scales the youth movements related to the French Section of the International worker and animates with dynamism the socialist federation of Saône-et-Loire. It is also invested in the press of the party. In 1914, it becomes appointed department but cannot preserve its seat at the legislative elections of 1919 which see the triumph of the national Bloc. It becomes again nevertheless appointed at the conclusion of the poll of 1924 but is not re-elected in 1928 and will never find the way of the Parliament. Very near to the pacifist current of the SFIO animated by Paul Faure, general secretary of the party and he also established in Saône-et-Loire, Théo-Bretin is excluded from the SFIO in 1945. It then takes part in the creation of the democratic Socialist party, structure gathering of Socialists SFIO “purified” because of their attitude under the mode of Vichy, and animates the departmental federation of the PSD at the sides of other close relations of Paul Faure like Julien Satonnet or Georges Nouelle.

This kindness with regard to Vichy does not seem to have carried wrong to the memory of Théo Bretin whose many streets of communes of the department still bear the name.

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