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Albert Sarraut
106th Prime Minister of France
In office
26 October 1933 – 26 November 1933
Preceded byÉdouard Daladier
Succeeded byCamille Chautemps
113th Prime Minister of France
In office
24 January 1936 – 4 June 1936
Preceded byPierre Laval
Succeeded byLéon Blum
Personal details
Born28 July 1872
Bordeaux, Gironde
Died26 November 1962(1962-11-26) (aged 90)
Paris
Political partyRadical

Albert-Pierre Sarraut (French: [albɛʁ saʁo]; 28 July 1872 – 26 November 1962) was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic.

Biography

Sarraut was born on 28 July 1872 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.

He was Governor-General of French Indochina, from 1912 to 1914 and from 1917 to 1919. On 18 January 1920 he replaced Henry Simon as Minister of the Colonies.

On 10 July 1940, Sarraut voted in favour of granting the Cabinet presided over by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France. Thereafter Sarraut retired from politics. He took control of the family newspaper, La Dépêche de Toulouse, after the editor, his brother Maurice Sarraut, was killed by the Milice in 1943.

Sarraut died in Paris on 26 November 1962.

Sarraut's First Ministry, 26 October – 26 November 1933

Sarraut's Second Ministry, 24 January – 4 June 1936

Further reading

  • Thomas, Martin (2005), "Albert Sarraut, French Colonial Development, and the Communist Threat, 1919–1930", The Journal of Modern History, 77 (4): 917–955, doi:10.1086/499830.

References

Political offices
Preceded by Prime Ministers of France
1933
Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Ministers of France
1936
Succeeded by