Édouard Herriot
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Édouard Marie Herriot (edwaʁ ɛʁjo; 5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic
who served three times as Prime Minister
and for many years as President of the Chamber of Deputies.
Hérriot was born at Troyes
, France. He served as Mayor of Lyon
from 1905 until his death, except for a brief period from 1942 to 1945, when he was exiled to Germany for opposing the Vichy regime
. He died in Lyon
, where he is buried at the Cimetière de loyasse.
Changes
was reached during a visit to Ukraine carried out between August 26 and September 9, 1933, by French Prime Minister
Édouard Herriot, who denied accounts of the famine and said that Soviet Ukraine was "like a garden in full bloom".
Herriot declared to the press that there was no famine in Ukraine, that he did not see any trace of it, and that this showed adversaries of the Soviet Union were spreading the rumour. "When one believes that the Ukraine is devastated by famine, allow me to shrug my shoulders", he declared. The September 13, 1933 issue of Pravda
was able to write that Herriot "categorically contradicted the lies of the bourgeoisie press in connection with a famine in the USSR."
Président of the Council of Ministers : 1924-1925 / 19–21 July 1926 / June–December 1932.
Minister of Transport, Public Works and Supply : 1916-1917.
Minister of Education and Fine Arts : 1926-1928.
Minister of Foreign Affairs : 1924-1925 / 19–21 July 1926 / June–December 1932.
Minister of State : 1934-1936.
Electoral mandates
National Assembly of France
President of the National Assembly of France : 1947-1954.
Member of the National Assembly of France for Rhône (department) : 1946-1957 (He died in 1957). Elected in 1946, reelected in 1951, 1956.
Constitutional Assembly
Member of the Constitutional Assembly for Rhône (department) : 1945-1946. Elected in 1945, reelected in June 1946.
Chamber of Deputies of France
President of the Chamber of Deputies of France : 1925-1926 / 1936-1940.
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of France
for Rhône (department) : 1919-1942 (Dissolution of Parliament by Philippe Petain
in 1942). Elected in 1919, reelected in 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936.
Senate of France
Senator of Rhône
: 1912-1919. Elected in 1911.
General council
General councillor of Rhône (department) : 1945-1951.
Municipal Council
Mayor of Lyon
: 1905-1942 (Deposition by Philippe Pétain
in 1942) / 1945-1957 (He died in 1957). Reelected in 1908, 1912, 1919, 1925, 1929, 1935, 1945, 1947, 1953.
Municipal councillor of Lyon
: 1904-1942 (Deposition by Philippe Pétain
in 1942) / 1945-1957 (He died in 1957). Reelected in 1908, 1912, 1919, 1925, 1929, 1935, 1945, 1947, 1953.
Political functions
President of the Radical Party (France) : 1919-1926 / 1931-1936 / 1948-1953 / 1955-1957.
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French Third Republic
The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France...
who served three times as Prime Minister
Prime Minister of France
The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...
and for many years as President of the Chamber of Deputies.
Hérriot was born at Troyes
Troyes
Troyes is a commune and the capital of the Aube department in north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about southeast of Paris. Many half-timbered houses survive in the old town...
, France. He served as Mayor of Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
from 1905 until his death, except for a brief period from 1942 to 1945, when he was exiled to Germany for opposing the Vichy regime
Vichy France
Vichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
. He died in Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
, where he is buried at the Cimetière de loyasse.
Herriot's First Ministry, 14 June 1924 - 17 April 1925
- Édouard Herriot - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Charles NolletCharles NolletCharles Marie Edouard Nollet was a French general and government minister, chairman of the Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control from 1919 to 1924, and Minister of War 1924-1925....
- Minister of War - Camille ChautempsCamille ChautempsCamille Chautemps was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic, three times President of the Council .-Career:Described as "intellectually bereft", Chautemps nevertheless entered politics and became Mayor of Tours in 1912, and a Radical deputy in 1919...
- Minister of the Interior - Étienne Clémentel - Minister of Finance
- Justin GodartJustin GodartJustin Godart was a French politician who served as the Minister for Health from June 3, 1932 to December 18, 1932.- Biography :...
- Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions - René RenoultRené RenoultRené Renoult was a French Minister and lawyer.Renoult is the son of Étienne and Élisa Geranger, a female day laborer. He studied at the Faculty of Law in Paris and obtained his doctorate in 1888...
- Minister of Justice - Jacques-Louis Dumesnil - Minister of Marine
- François Albert - Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
- Édouard Amédée Bovier-Lapierre - Minister of Pensions
- Henri QueuilleHenri QueuilleHenri Queuille was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister.He was the son of a noblewoman.-First ministry :...
- Minister of Agriculture - Édouard DaladierÉdouard DaladierÉdouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.-Career:Daladier was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. Later, he would become known to many as "the bull of Vaucluse" because of his thick neck and large shoulders and determined...
- Minister of Colonies - Victor Peytral - Minister of Public Works
- Eugène Raynaldy - Minister of Commerce and Industry
- Victor Dalbiez - Minister of Liberated Regions
Changes
- 3 April 1925 - Anatole de MonzieAnatole de MonzieAnatole de Monzie was a French administrator, encyclopaedist , political figure and scholar. His father was a tax collector in Bazas, Gironde where Anatole - a name he disliked from an early age - was born in 1876...
succeeds Clémentel as Minister of Finance.
Herriot's Second Ministry, 19–23 July 1926
- Édouard Herriot - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Paul PainlevéPaul PainlevéPaul Painlevé was a French mathematician and politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925.-Early life:Painlevé was born in Paris....
- Minister of War - Camille ChautempsCamille ChautempsCamille Chautemps was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic, three times President of the Council .-Career:Described as "intellectually bereft", Chautemps nevertheless entered politics and became Mayor of Tours in 1912, and a Radical deputy in 1919...
- Minister of the Interior - Anatole de MonzieAnatole de MonzieAnatole de Monzie was a French administrator, encyclopaedist , political figure and scholar. His father was a tax collector in Bazas, Gironde where Anatole - a name he disliked from an early age - was born in 1876...
- Minister of Finance - Louis Pasquet - Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions
- Maurice Colrat - Minister of Justice
- René RenoultRené RenoultRené Renoult was a French Minister and lawyer.Renoult is the son of Étienne and Élisa Geranger, a female day laborer. He studied at the Faculty of Law in Paris and obtained his doctorate in 1888...
- Minister of Marine - Édouard DaladierÉdouard DaladierÉdouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.-Career:Daladier was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. Later, he would become known to many as "the bull of Vaucluse" because of his thick neck and large shoulders and determined...
- Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts - Georges BonnetGeorges BonnetNot to be confused with the French Socialist Georges MonnetGeorges-Étienne Bonnet was a French politician and leading figure in the Radical-Socialist Party.- Early career :...
- Minister of Pensions - Henri QueuilleHenri QueuilleHenri Queuille was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister.He was the son of a noblewoman.-First ministry :...
- Minister of Agriculture - Adrien Dariac - Minister of Colonies
- Orly André-Hesse - Minister of Public Works
- Louis LoucheurLouis LoucheurLouis Loucheur was a French politician in the Third Republic, at first a member of the conservative Republican Federation, then of the Democratic Republican Alliance and of the Independent Radicals.-Life:Coming from a background in the arms industry, Loucheur became Minister of Munitions in...
- Minister of Commerce and Industry
Herriot's Third Ministry, 3 June - 18 December 1932
- Édouard Herriot - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Joseph Paul-BoncourJoseph Paul-BoncourAugustin Alfred Joseph Paul-Boncour was a French politician of the Third Republic.-Career:Born in Saint-Aignan, Loir-et-Cher, Paul-Boncour received a law degree from the University of Paris and became active in the labor movement, organizing the legal council of the Bourses du Travail...
- Minister of War - Camille ChautempsCamille ChautempsCamille Chautemps was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic, three times President of the Council .-Career:Described as "intellectually bereft", Chautemps nevertheless entered politics and became Mayor of Tours in 1912, and a Radical deputy in 1919...
- Minister of the Interior - Louis Germain-MartinLouis Germain-MartinLouis Germain-Martin was an Independent Radical French politician. He was Minister of Post and Telecommunications in the government of André Tardieu, and later a Budget Minister, before serving three times as Finance minister for much of the first half of the 1930's....
- Minister of Finance - Maurice PalmadeMaurice PalmadeMaurice Palmade was a French politician. He belonged to the Radical Party. Before World War II, he had been a Member of Parliament. He has been 3 times the Budget minister of France....
- Minister of Budget - Albert Dalimier - Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions
- René RenoultRené RenoultRené Renoult was a French Minister and lawyer.Renoult is the son of Étienne and Élisa Geranger, a female day laborer. He studied at the Faculty of Law in Paris and obtained his doctorate in 1888...
- Minister of Justice - Georges LeyguesGeorges LeyguesGeorges Leygues was a French politician of the Third Republic. During his time as Minister of Marine he worked with the navy's chief of staff Henri Salaun in unsuccessful attempts to gain naval re-armament priority for government funding over army rearmament such as the Maginot Line.He was born...
- Minister of Marine - Léon Meyer - Minister of Merchant Marine
- Paul PainlevéPaul PainlevéPaul Painlevé was a French mathematician and politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925.-Early life:Painlevé was born in Paris....
- Minister of Air - Anatole de MonzieAnatole de MonzieAnatole de Monzie was a French administrator, encyclopaedist , political figure and scholar. His father was a tax collector in Bazas, Gironde where Anatole - a name he disliked from an early age - was born in 1876...
- Minister of National Education - Aimé Berthod - Minister of Pensions
- Abel GardeyAbel GardeyAbel Gardey was a French politician. In 1933, he has been the French Minister of Budget....
- Minister of Agriculture - Albert SarrautAlbert SarrautAlbert-Pierre Sarraut was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic.Sarraut was born in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.He was Governor-General of French Indochina, from 1912 to 1919....
- Minister of Colonies - Édouard DaladierÉdouard DaladierÉdouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.-Career:Daladier was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. Later, he would become known to many as "the bull of Vaucluse" because of his thick neck and large shoulders and determined...
- Minister of Public Works - Justin GodartJustin GodartJustin Godart was a French politician who served as the Minister for Health from June 3, 1932 to December 18, 1932.- Biography :...
- Minister of Public Health - Henri QueuilleHenri QueuilleHenri Queuille was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister.He was the son of a noblewoman.-First ministry :...
- Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones - Julien Durand - Minister of Commerce and Industry
Denial of the Holodomor
The height of denial of the HolodomorDenial of the Holodomor
Denial of the Holodomor is the assertion that the 1932-1933 Holodomor, an artificial famine in Soviet Ukraine, recognized as a crime against humanity by the European Parliament, did not occur....
was reached during a visit to Ukraine carried out between August 26 and September 9, 1933, by French Prime Minister
Prime Minister of France
The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...
Édouard Herriot, who denied accounts of the famine and said that Soviet Ukraine was "like a garden in full bloom".
Herriot declared to the press that there was no famine in Ukraine, that he did not see any trace of it, and that this showed adversaries of the Soviet Union were spreading the rumour. "When one believes that the Ukraine is devastated by famine, allow me to shrug my shoulders", he declared. The September 13, 1933 issue of Pravda
Pravda
Pravda was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991....
was able to write that Herriot "categorically contradicted the lies of the bourgeoisie press in connection with a famine in the USSR."
Political career
Governmental functionsPrésident of the Council of Ministers : 1924-1925 / 19–21 July 1926 / June–December 1932.
Minister of Transport, Public Works and Supply : 1916-1917.
Minister of Education and Fine Arts : 1926-1928.
Minister of Foreign Affairs : 1924-1925 / 19–21 July 1926 / June–December 1932.
Minister of State : 1934-1936.
Electoral mandates
National Assembly of France
President of the National Assembly of France : 1947-1954.
Member of the National Assembly of France for Rhône (department) : 1946-1957 (He died in 1957). Elected in 1946, reelected in 1951, 1956.
Constitutional Assembly
Member of the Constitutional Assembly for Rhône (department) : 1945-1946. Elected in 1945, reelected in June 1946.
Chamber of Deputies of France
President of the Chamber of Deputies of France : 1925-1926 / 1936-1940.
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of France
Chamber of Deputies of France
Chamber of Deputies was the name given to several parliamentary bodies in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:* 1814–1848 during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy, the Chamber of Deputies was the Lower chamber of the French Parliament, elected by census suffrage.*...
for Rhône (department) : 1919-1942 (Dissolution of Parliament by Philippe Petain
Philippe Pétain
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...
in 1942). Elected in 1919, reelected in 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936.
Senate of France
Senator of Rhône
Rhône
Rhone can refer to:* Rhone, one of the major rivers of Europe, running through Switzerland and France* Rhône Glacier, the source of the Rhone River and one of the primary contributors to Lake Geneva in the far eastern end of the canton of Valais in Switzerland...
: 1912-1919. Elected in 1911.
General council
General councillor of Rhône (department) : 1945-1951.
Municipal Council
Mayor of Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
: 1905-1942 (Deposition by Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...
in 1942) / 1945-1957 (He died in 1957). Reelected in 1908, 1912, 1919, 1925, 1929, 1935, 1945, 1947, 1953.
Municipal councillor of Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
: 1904-1942 (Deposition by Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...
in 1942) / 1945-1957 (He died in 1957). Reelected in 1908, 1912, 1919, 1925, 1929, 1935, 1945, 1947, 1953.
Political functions
President of the Radical Party (France) : 1919-1926 / 1931-1936 / 1948-1953 / 1955-1957.
Trivia
Herriot was declared as a honorary citizen of the city of Veliki Bečkerek (today Zrenjanin) in 1933. There is also a street with his name in ZrenjaninZrenjanin
Zrenjanin is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District of Serbia...
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