Preceded by Edouard Daladier Role French Politician Books Indochina Name Albert Sarraut Succeeded by Camille Chautemps | Political party Radical Party Radical Party Preceded by Pierre Laval Parents Omer Sarraut | |
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Died November 26, 1962, Paris, France | ||
The change of ministry in Paris. New President Albert Sarraut. Minister Leon Blum...HD Stock Footage
Albert-Pierre Sarraut ([albɛʁ saʁo]; 28 July 1872 – 26 November 1962) was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic.
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- The change of ministry in Paris New President Albert Sarraut Minister Leon BlumHD Stock Footage
- Biography
- Sarrauts First Ministry 26 October 26 November 1933
- Sarrauts Second Ministry 24 January 4 June 1936
- References
Biography
Sarraut was born on 28 July 1872 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
He was Governor-General of French Indochina, from 1912 to 1914 and from 1917 to 1919. On 18 January 1920 he replaced Henry Simon as Minister of the Colonies.
On 10 July 1940, Sarraut voted in favour of granting the Cabinet presided over by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France. Thereafter Sarraut retired from politics. He took control of the family newspaper, La Dépêche de Toulouse, after the editor, his brother Maurice Sarraut, was killed by the Milice in 1943.
Sarraut died in Paris on 26 November 1962.