Marcel Barbu (October 17, 1907 – November 7, 1984) was a French politician.

Background and earlier life

Born in

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, Hauts-de-Seine, Barbu was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp during the Second World War. Barbu won election in 1945 in the

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for a small left-wing party.

French presidential candidate

In the

1965 French presidential election Presidential elections were held in France on 5 December 1965, with a second round on 19 December. They were the first direct presidential elections in the Fifth Republic and the first since the Second Republic in 1848. It had been widely expe ...

he ran as an independent candidate and obtained 1.15% of the votes. Barbu claimed to have been mistreated by the press and establishment, and wept at the end of one of his speeches. He is remembered as the candidate of the ''chiens battus'' or beaten dogs. Barbu is remembered as one of a number of widely diverse candidates — from both left and right — who stood against de Gaulle in 1965.

Death

He died in 1984.

Background and earlier life

French presidential candidate

Death

References

See also