Albert Bedouce (8 January 1869,

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– 4 August 1947,

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) was a French politician. He joined at first the

French Workers' Party The French Workers' Party (french: Parti Ouvrier Français, POF) was the French socialist party created in 1880 by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx's son-in-law (famous for having written '' The Right to Be Lazy'', which criticized w ...

(POF), which in 1902 merged into the Socialist Party of France (PSdF), which in turn merged into the

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(SFIO) in 1905. Bedouce was a member of the

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from 1906 to 1919 and from 1924 to 1940. He was Minister of Public Works from 1936 to 1937. In the 1939 presidential election Bedouce was the candidate of the SFIO, but lost to Albert Lebrun, the candidate of the Democratic Republican Alliance. On 10 July 1940, he voted in favour of granting the Cabinet presided by Marshal

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authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the

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and establishing

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. For this he was expelled from the SFIO after the

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. In 1945 he joined, with his associate

Émile Berlia Émile Berlia (23 May 1878 – 13 August 1946) was a French politician. Berlia was born in Toulouse. As a young man, he joined the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). An associate of Albert Bedouce Albert Bedouce (8 January 1 ...

, the newly founded Democratic Socialist Party (PSD).

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