Alphonse Gasnier-Duparc
Alphonse Henri Gasnier-Duparc (21 June 1879,
Life
The son of Alphonse Charles and Anne Marie Antoinette Robidou,
At the senate elections on 12 June 1932, he was elected on the second ballot by 568 votes to 534, out of 1,103 voting. He was re-elected in the triennial elections on 12 January 1933, when he won by 563 votes to 549, out of 1,103 voting. He was a member of the radical-socialist party and aligned with the democratic left party, sitting in the senate until 1940. He was made Naval Minister in the first Blum ministry of the Popular Front, taking up the role on 4 June 1936, with M. Blancho as under-secretary of state for the navy. After that cabinet's fall in June 1937, he resumed his seat in the Senate. On 10 July 1940, he voted in favour of granting the cabinet presided by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France. On 23 January 1941, he was made a member of the National Council of Vichy France.[2]
References
Sources
- "Alphonse Gasnier-Duparc", in Dictionnaire des parlementaires français (1889-1940), Jean Jolly (ed.), PUF, 1960
- Biography on the Senat.fr site