# Pierre Laval

> Prime Minister of France three times, executed by firing squad in 1945 for collaboration with Nazi Germany. His path from socialist lawyer defending strikers to Vichy official marks one of the Third Republic's sharpest political reversals.

*French politician (1883–1945)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1883-06-28
- **Died:** 1945-10-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Pierre Laval was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1914 as a socialist, holding to pacifist convictions through the First World War. After 1919 he drifted from the left, becoming mayor of Aubervilliers and later returning to parliament as an independent. He rose through ministerial posts—Public Works, Justice, Labour—and served his first term as prime minister in 1931. A second tenure in 1935 collapsed after his response to the Abyssinia Crisis was condemned as appeasement of Mussolini. France's defeat in 1940 delivered him to Philippe Pétain's Vichy government, where he served as vice-president of the Council of Ministers and later head of government until 1944. Imprisoned by the Germans at the Liberation, he fled to Spain in April 1945, was extradited, and stood trial for treason. He attempted suicide before the firing squad on 15 October 1945.

## Fame
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## Topics
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