Alexandre Bachelet

Alexandre Edmond Bachelet (6 January 1866 – 1 August 1945) was a French socialist politician.

Bachelet was born in

Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb of Paris. Bachelet worked as a labourer and studied part-time to become a teacher. He was active in politics as a member of the French Section of the Workers' International

(SFIO), the French socialist party. He was elected to the local council in Saint-Ouen in 1912.

When the SFIO split at the

French Senate

in 1927 and was reelected in 1935.

From 1930 he was a member of the Proletarian Unity Party (PUP), a fusion of minor left-wing groups which affiliated with the International Revolutionary Marxist Centre. He returned to the SFIO in 1937 when the PUP voted to rejoin the Socialist Party.

In June 1940, he was one of the

80 who voted against the grant of special powers to Philippe Pétain and the creation of the Vichy régime

. Following the liberation of France in 1944, he served as mayor of Saint-Ouen. He was defeated in the election of May 1945 and died shortly afterwards.

Sources and further reading

French Senate. "Anciens sénateurs IIIe République" (in French). Retrieved 2009-12-31.
Jolly, Jean (1960). "Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français 1889-1940" (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
Ligou, Daniel, Dictionnaire de la Franc-Maçonnerie.
Maitron, Jean (ed.), Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français.