René Capitant
René Capitant | |
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French Minister of Justice | |
In office 31 May 1968 – 27 April 1969 | |
President | Charles de Gaulle |
Prime Minister | Georges Pompidou Maurice Couve de Murville |
Preceded by | Louis Joxe |
Succeeded by | Jean-Marcel Jeanneney |
Personal details | |
Born | La Tronche, France | 19 August 1901
Died | 23 May 1970 Suresnes, France | (aged 68)
Political party | UNR |
René Marie Alphonse Charles Capitant (19 August 1901 in La Tronche, Isère – 23 May 1970 in Suresnes) was a French lawyer and politician.
He was the son of a lawyer, Henri Capitant, and attended the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. He received his Juris Doctor degree also in Paris.
In 1930, he was appointed to the faculty of the University of Strasbourg and became a member of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an anti-fascist organization of intellecuals.
During World War II, he was involved in the creation of the resistance movement Combat in Clermont-Ferrand. He had to leave the country and became a law professor at the University of Algiers in 1941. After the Liberation, he became the Minister of Public Education in the provisional government.
From 1945 to 1951, he was a leftist Gaullist member of the National Assembly of France. In 1946, he founded, with Louis Vallon, the Union gaulliste.
After 1951, he was a law professor in Paris and was named director of the Franco-Japanese House in Tokyo from 1957 to 1960. He was then re-elected to the National Assembly from 1962 to 1968.
He served as the Minister of Justice (Garde des Sceaux) in the Georges Pompidou government from 1968 to 1969.
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