François Billoux
François Billoux | |
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Louis-Pasteur Vallery-Radot | |
Succeeded by | Robert Prigent |
Personal details | |
Born | Saint-Romain-la-Motte, Loire, French Third Republic | 21 May 1903
Died | 14 January 1978 Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France | (aged 74)
Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
Nationality | French |
Political party | French Communist Party |
François Billoux (21 May 1903 – 14 January 1978) was a French communist politician.
Biography
Billoux was born in
Central Committee of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1926, and a member of the Politburo from 1936. From 1928 until 1931, he was also General Secretary of the Young Communist Movement of France
(MJCF), the youth wing of the PCF.
Billoux served as a member of the
Minister of National Economy (1945–1946), Minister of Reconstruction and Urban Development (1946) and Minister of National Defence (1947). He died in Menton, and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.[1]
References
- ^ "François Billoux". National Assembly. Retrieved 27 November 2016.