Édouard Depreux
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Édouard Gustave Depreux (31 October 1898 – 16 October 1981) was a French socialist journalist, essayist, and politician of the
Nord
) and died in Paris.
Early career
Born in Viesly, Depreux moved with his family to Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine in 1913.[1] A soldier in World War I, Depreux was injured in a gas attack, and was subsequently awarded the Croix de Guerre. He joined the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO) at age 20, being influenced by the ideas of Jean Jaurès and Jean Longuet; he studied Philosophy, Law, and Humanities, before becoming a lawyer.
After serving as a member of the
Le Populaire. After the liberation of Paris, Depreux became mayor of Sceaux (a position he would hold until 1959), and a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly that served as the legislature of France prior to the creation of the Fourth Republic; he then was elected to the French Parliament
for successive terms between 1946 and 1958.
As Minister and PSU leader
A
colony of Algeria. In 1947, he revealed the existence of an American-sponsored secret "stay-behind
army" in France codenamed Plan Bleu.
He was
French National Assembly
on two occasions.
At the same time, he became an opponent of
Fifth Republic. Édouard Depreux left the SFIO to enter the new Autonomous Socialist Party (PSA), and then the Unified Socialist Party
(PSU, created by a merger between the PSA and other groups), serving as its national secretary between 1960 and 1967.
Works
- Renouveau du socialisme, Calmann-Lévy, 1960
- La nouvelle Chine et son héritage, Editions du Burin, 1967
- Souvenir d'un militant, de la social-démocratie au socialisme, Fayard, 1972
- Servitude et grandeur du PSU, Editions Syros, 1974
- Comment j'ai pu, en décembre 1941, sous l'occupation nazie, dire non à Pétain et à Hitler, Presses de l'Atelier Graphique, Reims 1979
See also
- Nationalism and resistance in Algeria
- Operation Gladio
References
- ^ B. D. Graham, 'Depreux, Edouard Gustave', in David Bell, Douglas Johnson & Douglas Morris, A Biographical Dictionary of French Political Leaders since 1870, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990, pp. 116–7
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