Alexandre Millerand – Wikipedia

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Alexandre Millerand (Paris, February 10, 1859 – Versailles, April 7, 1943) was a French politician.

He was prime minister from 20 January to 24 September 1920 and President of the Republic of France from 23 September 1920 to 11 June 1924.

The father, Jean-François Milrand (1826-1897), was a fabric shopkeeper, married in 1861 with Mélanie Caen (1835-1898).

Lawyer, he acquired fame in assuming the defense, together with Georges Laguerre, by Ernest Roche and Duc-Shary, the instigators of the Decazeville strike in 1883. On 1 May of the same year he was started in Freemasonry in the L’Amité Loggia [first]

When Laguerre was elected deputy, always in 1883, he took his place as a judicial news commentator in the newspaper of Georges Clemenceau, To Justice . He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Senna Department in 1885 as Radicalsocialist.

Together with Clemenceau and Camille Pelletan was the referee of the appointment of the workers, in the Carmaux strike (1892).

His influence as a speaker at the Chamber – who was sorted in the debates on social legislation – extended when the Panama scandal spread the discredit towards the political class.

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At the head of the socialist group (which has become Socialist Party of France in 1899), which counted sixty deputies, directed his press body until 1896, The Little Republic . In 1898, he became director of Lantern .

Its political program included the collective property of the means of production and the International Workers Association, but in June 1899 it became part of the “Republican Defense” cabinet ( Republican defense ) by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau in the quality of Minister of Commerce, despite the presence in the same cabinet of a far-right character who had guided the repression of the Municipality of Paris in 1871: this caused a first serious ideological and political fracture with his parliamentary group belonging.

The government dedicated themselves to reforms for the improvement of the merchant Navy, the development of trade, technical education, the postal system and the improvement of working conditions.

His name was connected with the law on old -age pensions, approved in the end in 1905, but at that moment his reformism had already distanced it from his parliamentary group (moved more and more towards the extreme Marxist orthodoxy) who had it Expelled in 1903.

In turn, he moved to criticized “small-bourgeois” positions, he was appointed prime minister by the Head of the Conservative State Paul Deschanel in January 1920.

A few months later Deschanel had to resign due to mental health problems, and Milrand emerged as a candidate for compromise on the presidency of the Republic, being elected in September 1920.

As president, he was accused of abandoning the traditional neutrality of the Elysée, with the appointments as Prime Minister of Georges Leygues (who, coming from the public administration, lent himself to support a strengthening of the powers of the head of state in the management of the executive ), Aristide Briand (suffered by him, due to the resistance of the chambers to his chosen candidate, Raoul Péret) and Raymond Poincaré (whom he appointed after the sinister did not actively commit themselves to the continuation of the Briand government).

On July 14, 1922 Milrand escaped an attack by the Anarchist Gustave Bouvet.

Two years later, due to the continuation of the conflict between the Elisha and the Chambers, Milrand resigned, just as the sinister cartel won the elections in 1924. Gaston Doumergue, president of the Senate, replaced him at the helm of the Republic.

Temba, Passy cemetery.

Alexandre Milrand died in 1943 in Versailles and was buried in Passy’s cemetery.

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