Édouard Herriot

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Édouard Herriot
Édouard Herriot en 1946.jpg
Prime Minister of France
In office
3 June 1932 – 18 December 1932
PresidentAlbert Lebrun
Preceded byAndré Tardieu
Succeeded byJoseph Paul-Boncour
In office
20 July 1926 – 23 July 1926
PresidentGaston Doumergue
Preceded byAristide Briand
Succeeded byRaymond Poincaré
In office
15 June 1924 – 17 April 1925
PresidentGaston Doumergue
Preceded byFrédéric François-Marsal
Succeeded byPaul Painlevé
Mayor of Lyon
In office
1945–1957
Preceded byJustin Godart
Succeeded byLouis Pradel
Personal details
Born(1872-07-05)5 July 1872
Troyes, France
Died26 March 1957(1957-03-26) (aged 84)
Saint-Genis-Laval, France
Resting placeLoyasse Cemetery
NationalityFrench
Political partyRadical Party
Spouse(s)Blanche Rebatel
EducationLycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure

Édouard Marie Herriot (French: [edwaʁ ɛʁjo]; 5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and for many years as President of the Chamber of Deputies.[1] He was leader of the first Cartel des Gauches.

Life[]

Hérriot was born at Troyes, France on 5 July 1872. He served as Mayor of Lyon from 1905 until his death, except for a brief period from 1940 to 1945, when he was exiled to Germany for opposing the Vichy regime. As mayor, Herriot improved relations between municipal government and local unions, increased public assistance funds, and began an urban renewal programme,[2] amongst other measures. He died in Lyon on 26 March 1957.[1] He is buried at the Cimetière de Loyasse.

Herriot's First Ministry, 14 June 1924 – 17 April 1925[]

Changes

Herriot's Second Ministry, 19–23 July 1926[]

  • Édouard Herriot - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Paul Painlevé - Minister of War
  • Camille Chautemps - Minister of the Interior
  • Anatole de Monzie - Minister of Finance
  • - Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions
  • Maurice Colrat - Minister of Justice
  • René Renoult - Minister of Marine
  • Édouard Daladier - Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
  • Georges Bonnet - Minister of Pensions
  • Henri Queuille - Minister of Agriculture
  • - Minister of Colonies
  • - Minister of Public Works
  • Louis Loucheur - Minister of Commerce and Industry

Herriot's Third Ministry, 3 June – 18 December 1932[]

Denial of the Holodomor[]

The height of denial of the Holodomor was reached during a visit to Ukraine carried out between 26 August and 9 September 1933 by Herriot, who had recently left the French Prime Ministry. Herriot denied accounts of the famine and said that Soviet Ukraine was "like a garden in full bloom".[3]

Furthermore, he announced to the press that there was no famine in Ukraine, that he did not see any trace of hunger, and that the allegations of starving millions were being spread by adversaries of the Soviet Union. "When one believes that the Ukraine is devastated by famine, allow me to shrug my shoulders", he declared. The 13 September 1933 issue of Pravda was able to write that Herriot "categorically contradicted the lies of the bourgeoisie press in connection with a famine in the USSR."[4]

Political career[]

Governmental functions

Président of the Council of Ministers : 1924–1925 / 19–21 July 1926 / June–December 1932.

Minister of Transport, Public Works and Supply : 1916–1917.

Minister of Education and Fine Arts : 1926–1928.

Minister of Foreign Affairs : 1924–1925 / 19–21 July 1926 / June–December 1932.

Minister of State : 1934–1936.

Electoral mandates

National Assembly of France

President of the National Assembly of France : 1947–1954.

Member of the National Assembly of France for Rhône (department) : 1946–1957 (He died in 1957). Elected in 1946, reelected in 1951, 1956.

Constitutional Assembly

Member of the Constitutional Assembly for Rhône (department) : 1945–1946. Elected in 1945, reelected in June 1946.

Chamber of Deputies of France

President of the Chamber of Deputies of France : 1925–1926 / 1936–1940.

Member of the Chamber of Deputies of France for Rhône (department) : 1919–1942 (Dissolution of Parliament by Philippe Petain in 1942). Elected in 1919, reelected in 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936.

Senate of France

Senator of Rhône : 1912–1919. Elected in 1911.

General council

General councillor of Rhône (department) : 1945–1951.

Municipal Council

Mayor of Lyon : 1905–1940 (Deposition by Vichy regime in 1940) / 1945–1957 (He died in 1957). Reelected in 1908, 1912, 1919, 1925, 1929, 1935, 1945, 1947, 1953.

Municipal councillor of Lyon : 1904–1940 (Deposition by the Vichy regime in 1940) / 1945–1957 (He died in 1957). Reelected in 1908, 1912, 1919, 1925, 1929, 1935, 1945, 1947, 1953.

Political functions

President of the Radical Party (France) : 1919–1926 / 1931–1936 / 1948–1953 / 1955–1957.

Legacy[]

Herriot was declared an honorary citizen of the city of Veliki Bečkerek (today Zrenjanin) in 1933. There is also a street with his name in Zrenjanin.

His visit to a church in Kiev, where a fake religious service was organized for the occasion, is described in "The Mechanical Lions", one of the stories in A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Herriot Is Dead. French Leader, 84". The New York Times. March 27, 1957. Retrieved 2015-01-07. Three-Time Premier, Radical Party Power, Was Scholar and Member of Academy. Hoped to Defeat E.D.C. Plan '54. Long Urged Nation Pay War Debts to U.S. Tributes From Leaders National Funeral Urged Widely Known in U.S. Became Premier in 1924. Abstained From Vote. Edouard Herriot, French statesman, party leader, scholar and author who had become a symbol of the premier Third Republic, died today at the age of 84. ...
  2. ^ Stone, Judith F. (8 April 1985). The Search for Social Peace: Reform Legislation in France, 1890–1914. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780887060229. Retrieved 8 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Nicolas Werth, Karel Bartošek, Jean-Louis Panné, Jean-Louis Margolin, Andrzej Paczkowski, Stéphane Courtois, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-674-07608-7, pages 159–160
  4. ^ "France, Germany and Austria facing the famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine" (PDF). holodomorct.org. Retrieved 8 April 2018.

Further reading[]

  • De Tarr, Francis. The French Radical Party: From Herriot to Mendès-France (Greenwood, 1980).

External links[]

Political offices
Preceded by
Marcel Sembat 		Minister of Public Works and Transport
1916–1917 		Succeeded by
Georges Desplas
Preceded by
—
1916–1917 		Succeeded by
Maurice Viollette
Preceded by
Frédéric François-Marsal 		Prime Minister of France
1924–1925 		Succeeded by
Paul Painlevé
Preceded by
Edmond Lefebvre du Prey 		Minister of Foreign Affairs
1924–1925 		Succeeded by
Aristide Briand
Preceded by
Paul Painlevé 		President of the Chamber of Deputies
1925–1926 		Succeeded by
Raoul Péret
Preceded by
Aristide Briand 		Prime Minister of France
1926 		Succeeded by
Raymond Poincaré
Minister of Foreign Affairs
1926 		Succeeded by
Aristide Briand
Preceded by
Édouard Daladier 		Minister of Public Instruction
1926–1928 		Succeeded by
Pierre Marraud
Preceded by
André Tardieu 		Prime Minister of France
1932 		Succeeded by
Joseph Paul-Boncour
Minister of Foreign Affairs
1932
Preceded by
— 		Minister of State
1934–1936 		Succeeded by
—
Preceded by
Fernand Bouisson 		President of the Chamber of Deputies
1936–1940 		Succeeded by
—
Preceded by
Vincent Auriol 		President of the National Assembly
1947–1954 		Succeeded by
André Le Troquer
New office President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
1949 		Succeeded by
Paul-Henri Spaak
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