Henri Torrès

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Henri Torrès
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
for Alpes-Maritimes
In office
1 May 1932 – 31 May 1936
Personal details
Born(1891-10-17)17 October 1891
Les Andelys, Normandy, France
Died4 January 1966(1966-01-04) (aged 74)
Paris, France
Political partyPCF
SpouseJeanne Blum
Nahum Goldmann, Stephen Samuel Wise, and Henri Torres (speaking) at World Jewish Congress conference in New York, June 1942

Henry Torrès (17 October 1891 – 4 January 1966) was a French trial lawyer and politician, and a prolific writer on political and legal matters.

Family

Henry Torrès was born in

Dreyfus Affair. He married Jeanne Levylier, with whom he had two children Jean and Georges, but they divorced.[2]

Career

As a young man, Torrès became an active

Communist and worked as a journalist for various socialist publications. During the First World War, he served as an infantry sergeant, was injured at Verdun and won several medals including the Croix de Guerre. After the war Torrès decided to study law and became a criminal lawyer. With Vincent de Moro-Giafferi and César Campinchi he was known as one of the "three Musketeers"—all brilliant young leaders of the Paris bar. In his early years Torrès had aspired to become a comedian, but his style was encumbered by a pronounced lisp
. Nonetheless, in his later years he was famed for his booming voice and flamboyant personality.

Torrès was involved in several criminal trials, before the

Schwartzbard trial, not only in Paris but in Moscow and in Rumania. Upon returning to Paris he initiated a protest campaign denouncing the barbaric treatment of Jews in Bessarabia. After the Schwartzbard trial he was recognized as one of France's leading trial lawyers[3] and remained active in political affairs.[4]

After the

Pétain regime.[5]

Writer

In New York City, Torrès served as editor-in-chief of La Voix de France, a political journal for refugees and later as a professor of law at the Universities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.[6] After the war, he returned to his homeland and was reinstated into the French bar.

From 1948 to 1958 he was a

Seine department
. He served briefly as Vice President of the High Court of Justice and did work in the national radio and television system, serving as President of the state monopoly from 1948 to 1959.

Torrès was a prolific writer and also wrote plays with a legal background including French translations of The Trial of Mary Dugan and Witness for the Prosecution. Henry Torrès died at his Paris home in 1966. He was 75.

References

  1. ^ "Henry Torres Dies in France; Was Defender in Historic Jewish Cases | Jewish Telegraphic Agency". jta.org. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  2. ISSN 0040-781X
    . Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  3. ^ Joffrin, Laurent. "Livre. Lorsque le gouvernement de Vichy promulgue les lois sur le statut des Juifs, les avocats ne protestent pas. Pis, ils les appliquent avec zèle à leur profession. Ce jour de 1940 où les avocats ont failli. Robert Badinter, «Un antisémitisme ordinaire. Vichy et les avocats juifs. 1940-1944», Fayard, 260 pp., 110 F." Libération (in French). Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  4. ISSN 0003-9837
    .
  5. ^ "Lazareff Scornful of Vichy Act". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  6. ^ "TorrèS, Henry | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2022-12-15.

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