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    André Léon Blum (French: [ɑ̃dʁe leɔ̃ blum]; 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France. As...
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  • 148 Colton, Joel (1968). Léon Blum, Humanist in Politics.. Lacouture, Jean (1982). Léon Blum. Gruber, Helmut (1986). Léon Blum, French Socialism, and the...
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    Jeanne Adèle “Janot” Blum (11 February 1899 – 3 July 1982) was the third wife of Léon Blum, the French socialist politician and three times Prime Minister...
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    and was the younger brother of the Socialist Prime Minister of France, Léon Blum. A Jew, he was interned in various camps from 1941 until he was murdered...
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    coalition won the 1936 election and formed a government under SFIO leader Léon Blum, which lasted until 1938. After the outbreak of World War II and German...
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    Front coalition. Daladier became Minister of National Defence in the Léon Blum government and retained the crucial portfolio for two years. Besides for...
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    signatories of a supposed letter "No. 3547" addressed to French Prime Minister Léon Blum on 15 June 1936, which implored the French not to abandon Syria. However...
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  • was from 1936 (the beginning of the Popular Front administration, under Léon Blum) to 1940 and Paul Reynaud's cabinet. The trial, supported by the Nazis...
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  • 2023-02-17. *"Léon Blum". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-02-19. "Leon Blum". en.israelmint.com. Retrieved 2023-02-19. Job, Françoise. « Léon Geismar, gouverneur...
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    in the 1930s.; Colton 1966; Lacouture, Jean (1982). Léon Blum.; Gruber, Helmut (1986). Léon Blum, French Socialism, and the Popular Front: A Case of Internal...
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    Colton, Léon Blum (1966) pp. 92–126. Colton, Léon Blum (1966) pp. 160–97. Gordon Wright, France in Modern Times (1995) pp 360–369. Colton, Léon Blum (1966)...
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    conservative coalition that had governed since the 6 February 1934 crisis. Léon Blum became president of the council. The SFIC, predecessor of the Communist...
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  • The Blum–Viollette proposal of 1936 takes its name from Léon Blum and Maurice Viollette, who acted as the French premier and governor-general of Algeria...
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    cover-up. In Léon Blum's Popular Front government of 1936, Chautemps represented the Radical-Socialist Party as a Minister of State and succeeded Blum at the...
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    11th arrondissement of Paris, the Church of Saint-Ambroise and the Place Léon-Blum (formerly called the Place Voltaire). It includes a bust of the French...
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    In 1936, after voicing death threats against the socialist politician Léon Blum, Maurras was sentenced to eight months in La Santé. While imprisoned,...
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    prison after serving a sentence for verbally attacking Prime Minister Léon Blum, Daudet joined other political leaders Xavier Vallat, Darquier de Pellepoix...
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    Assembly on 29 November after which Bidault resigned. His successor was Léon Blum. Bidault served various French governments, first as foreign minister...
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    York: The Macmillan Company, 1968, pp. 19–20. Warner, p. 20. Léon Blum, L'Œuvre de Léon Blum, Réparations et Désarmement, Les Problèmes de la Paix, La Montée...
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    leaders of the new SFIO (the remaining socialist minority), along with Léon Blum. Auriol became the party's leading spokesman on financial issues. He chaired...
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    the concept of proportional salary. In 1936, the social reforms led by Léon Blum in France suddenly created a vacation industry, and the sales of L'Oréal's...
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    formation of the Popular Front, led by the socialist SFIO and its leader, Léon Blum, who won the 1936 elections. Like the United Kingdom, France initially...
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  • of State James F. Byrnes and representatives of the French government Léon Blum and, especially, Jean Monnet. The agreements aimed to eradicate France's...
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    Under his leadership as Minister of the Interior in the government of Léon Blum, the French police infiltrated La Cagoule, which was planning the overthrow...
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  • needed] David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (1948–1954; 1955–1963) Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France (1936–1937; 1938) Willy Brandt, Chancellor of...
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    Prime Minister Léon Blum on February 13, 1936. On February 13, 1936, during the funeral of the royalist historian Jacques Bainville, Léon Blum drove through...
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  • 2d ed. (New York: Longman, 1996), p. 50. Léon Blum: Humanist in Politics, by Joel Colton, p236. Léon Blum: Humanist in Politics, by Joel Colton, p240...
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    June 1937 13 March 1938 Radical-Socialist Party (Popular Front) 4 55 Léon Blum (1872–1950) 2 13 March 1938 10 April 1938 French Section of the Workers'...
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    government but his allies refused. Finally, the SFIO former Prime Minister Léon Blum took the head of the Cabinet. Furthermore, another socialist, Vincent...
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    facility. During World War II, the Vichy regime arrested and interned Léon Blum, Édouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel and Maurice Gamelin as...
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