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Léon Blum

French politician (1872-1950) · France · Politicians · Died at 77

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France's first Jewish prime minister, architect of the Popular Front's 1936 reforms, then a prisoner at Buchenwald - the socialist who survived the camp that tried to erase him and came back to rebuild the republic.

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1950Died30 March 19501926“Although I am not a legalist when it comes to the conquest of power, I am one when it comes to the exercise of power.”In their wordsJanuary 1926Speech to the Bellevilloise Congress of the Socialist Party (January 1926), quoted in Jean Lacouture, Léon Blum (1979), p. 206

1924“Only now do I understand the harm done our nation's best interests by the rebuff administered to Poincaré's policy in 1924.”In their wordsQuoted in Pertinax [André Géraud], The Gravediggers of France (1944), p. 374

1912“What the Nationalists are once again trying to revive is the state of mind, or rather, the passions of 1912-13... Hitler to-day is miles away from power.”In their wordsStatement (1930), quoted in Denis William Brogan, The Development of Modern France (1870-1939) (1940), p. 685

1909Knight of the Legion of HonourAward1889Concours généralAward1872Born9 April 1872

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  1. Although I am not a legalist when it comes to the conquest of power, I am one when it comes to the exercise of power.

    Jan 1926, Speech to the Bellevilloise Congress of the Socialist Party (January 1926), quoted in Jean Lacouture, Léon Blum (1979), p. 206, Own words

  2. Only now do I understand the harm done our nation's best interests by the rebuff administered to Poincaré's policy in 1924.

    1924, Quoted in Pertinax [André Géraud], The Gravediggers of France (1944), p. 374, Own words

  3. What the Nationalists are once again trying to revive is the state of mind, or rather, the passions of 1912-13... Hitler to-day is miles away from power.

    1912, Statement (1930), quoted in Denis William Brogan, The Development of Modern France (1870-1939) (1940), p. 685, Own words

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Knight of the Legion of Honour1909
Concours général1889

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André Léon Blum grew up shaped by the Dreyfus affair, became a disciple of Jean Jaurès, and inherited leadership of the French socialists after Jaurès was assassinated in 1914. In 1936 he took office as prime minister in the Popular Front government and rolled out sweeping economic and social reforms, though he held neutrality in the Spanish Civil War to keep the violence from crossing the border. Out of power by 1938, he spoke against appeasing Germany. When France fell in 1940, Vichy put him on trial for treason - the proceedings never reached a verdict - and shipped him to Buchenwald. He survived the camp, returned after liberation, and spent his final years helping establish the Fourth Republic before his death in 1950.

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France
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Politicians
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Politician
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deceased
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Lived 1872 to 1950 · aged 77

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