Félix Gouin
 |
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2009) |
| Felix Gouin | |
|---|---|
| President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic | |
| In office 26 January 1946 – 24 June 1946 |
|
| Preceded by | Charles de Gaulle |
| Succeeded by | Georges Bidault |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 October 1884 Peypin, France |
| Died | 25 October 1977 (aged 93) Nice, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | Socialist |
Félix Gouin (French: [feliks ɡwɛ̃]; 1884–1977) was a French Socialist politician, member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO).
[edit] Personal life
Félix Gouin was born in Peypin, Bouches-du-Rhône, the son of school teachers. He studied law in Aix-en-Provence.
In 1940 he was among the minority of parliamentarians refusing to grant full powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain.
During the war, he was part of the central committee which reconstituted the Human Rights League and also co-founded the Brutus Network, a Socialist Resistance group.
In 1946, he then succeeded Charles de Gaulle as head of the French Provisional Government. Gouin's tenure as prime minister was arguably most notable for seeing the enactment of France’s first ever compulsory, amply funded retirement and worker’s compensation laws.[1]
[edit] Government (26 January – 24 June 1946)
- Félix Gouin – Chairman of the Provisional Government
- Francisque Gay – Vice Chairman of the Provisional Government
- Maurice Thorez – Vice Chairman of the Provisional Government
- Georges Bidault – Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Edmond Michelet – Minister of Armies
- André Le Troquer – Minister of the Interior
- André Philip – Minister of Finance and National Economy
- Marcel Paul – Minister of Industrial Production
- Ambroise Croizat – Minister of Labour and Social Security
- Pierre-Henri Teitgen – Minister of Justice
- Marcel Edmond Naegelen – Minister of National Education
- Laurent Casanova – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
- François Tanguy-Prigent – Minister of Agriculture
- Henri Longchambon – Minister of Supply
- Marius Moutet – Minister of Overseas France
- Jules Moch – Minister of Public Works and Transport
- Robert Prigent – Minister of Public Health and Population
- François Billoux – Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning
- Jean Letourneau – Minister of Posts
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Charles de Gaulle |
Chairman of the Provisional Government of France 1946 |
Succeeded by Georges Bidault |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
[edit] References
- ^ Social democracy & welfare capitalism: a century of income security politics by Alexander M. Hicks
 |
This article about a French politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
