Vincent Auriol , born the August 27th 1884 with Revel (Haute-Garonne) and dead on January 1st 1966 with Low wall, is a statesman French. Elected official President of the French Republic the January 16th 1947.

Biography

Its beginnings

Wire of baker, bachelor of law in 1905, then doctor in right, it follows the lawyer occupation with Toulouse, militates with SFIO as of his foundation and creates in 1908 a daily newspaper, the socialist South . Appointed Low wall of 1914 with 1940, then mayor of this same city in 1925, secretary of the socialist group to the House of Commons as from 1928, he becomes gradually the financial expert of the socialist party then one of his main leaders. He makes adopt by the SFIO in 1921, then by the whole of the European socialist parties in 1922, a recovery package envisaging the creation of a central Office which would undertake all the stricken regions and which would be financed by loans with long runs authorized by the government. The Germany would pay, via this organization, its repairs, by taking away on the dividends of its banks and industries. But the Socialists are not then enough powerful to impose such a project.

From 1924 to 1926, under the Trust of the lefts, Vincent Auriol chairs the committee of supply of the House of Commons.

Minister for Finance during the government of the Popular front, hostile with the Agreements of Munich, it is one of the eighty members of Parliament to refuse to vote the full powerss with the marshal Pétain, the July 10th 1940.

Second world war

In September of this year, the Vichy government makes it stop. Vincent Auriol is initially imprisoned with Pellevoisin (Indre) then with Valley-the-Baths (Ardèche) and maintains a correspondence with Leon Blum, where it is shown completely optimistic on the victory of the democracies vis-a-vis the Nazisme and to the Fascisme. Vichy makes carry out a survey into him, but the civil court of Low wall pronounces a withdrawal of case. It is released for health reasons and is placed under house arrest August 1941. Of its house, he advises the resistant Socialists. In 1942, it passes to clandestinity and enters the Résistance. He writes Hier and tomorrow, which will be published in 1944 in Algiers, and in which he starts a reflection on the institutions which, according to him, should replace those of IIIe République. In 1943, he manages to join London in the plane. The following year, he is president of the Committee of supply of the Consultative Assembly of Algiers. The general Charles de Gaulle often calls upon his councils.

President of the Republic

In 1945 it is named minister of state by de Gaulle. In 1946, Vincent Auriol becomes president of the first, then second constituent Assembly. The following year, it becomes the first president of the Fourth Republic. Auriol does not hear, according to its expression, being a “president small joist” : he exerts his function of referee fully.

After the presidency

In dissension with Guy Mollet, it leaves SFIO in 1958 and benefits from its statute of former president and historical leader of French socialism to collect funds near the parties members of the Internationale Socialist with the profit of new PSA.

In 1959, he becomes member of right of the Constitutional council, but he ceases going to the meetings as of 1960, to protest against the interpretation outrageusement restrictive of competences of the Council and the Parliament which the general De Gaulle has: several laws, whose law Debré on secondary education, were voted without the Constitutional council being consulted. “This ease with regard to national sovereignty and of our fundamental charter directs the constitutional mode of 1958 towards system of a personal and arbitrary capacity in opposition with the principles and the rules essential of the democracy. ” Vincent Auriol returns on November 6th 1962 to vote on the constitutionality of the law chief clerk modifying the mode of election of the president of the Republic. Its ultimate political act is to invite to vote for François Mitterrand at the time of the presidential election of December 1965.

Married to Michelle Aucouturier in 1912, he is the father-in-law of the aviatrice Jacqueline Auriol.

Electoral mandates

Functions

Governmental functions

Representative functions

Other functions

Decorations

  • Medal of Resistance
  • Large Officer of the Legion of honor
  • Large Master of the Legion of honor (like chair Republic)
  • Grand Cross of the National order of 32 States
  • voluntary Croix of combatant of Resistance

Works

  • Yesterday and tomorrow , 1944 (written during the Second world war)
  • Newspaper of the septennate , ED. Tallandier, 2004 (full version)

Quotation

“As the human nation rises above the various and varied provinces, the human nation must rise and be organized above the independent and associated nations. The principles of the human organization must be the same ones as those of the national organization. They are the principles of the democracy: freedom, equality, fraternity. ” (Speech with Algiers, on July 25th, 1944)

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