Albert Pierre Camille Peyronnet (5 January 1862 – 18 December 1958) was a French politician who was a senator from 1912 to 1945 and Minister of Labor in 1922–24.
Life
Albert Pierre Camille Peyronnet was born on 5 January 1862 in Brest, Finistère.
His father was a secondary school principal, who soon moved to the lycée of
Montluçon
Montluçon (; ) is a commune in central France on the river Cher. It is the largest commune in the Allier department, although the department's prefecture is located in the smaller town of Moulins. Its inhabitants are known as ''Montluçonna ...
.
From there Peyronnet went on to study at the faculty of law in Paris, the School of Political Science and the School of Business and Economics.
He became an advocate in
Cosne-sur-Loire
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire () is a commune and a subprefecture of the Nièvre department in central France. It was created in 1973 by the merger of two former communes: Cosne-sur-Loire and Cours.René Viviani
Jean Raphaël Adrien René Viviani (; 8 November 18637 September 1925) was a French politician of the Third Republic, who served as Prime Minister for the first year of World War I. He was born in Sidi Bel Abbès, in French Algeria. In France ...
, Minister of Labor from 1906 to 1908, then Viviani's chief of staff until 1909.
He was chief of staff of
Louis Puech
Louis Puech (1 May 1851, in Gavernac, Bozouls, Aveyron – 15 July 1947, in Aubignac, Aveyron) was a député of the French Third Republic and Minister of Public Works in the second government of Aristide Briand from 3 November 1910 to 24 Feb ...
Ernest Monis
Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis (; 23 May 1846 in Châteauneuf-sur-Charente, in Charente – 25 May 1929 in Mondouzil, in Haute-Garonne) was a French politician of the Third Republic, deputy of Gironde from 1885 to 1889 and then senator of the s ...
, Minister of Worship in March-June 1911.
Peyronnet was elected senator for the
Allier
Allier ( , , ; ) is a Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region that borders Cher (department), Cher to the west, Nièvre to the north, Saône-et-Loire and Loire (department), Loire to the east, Pu ...
on 7 January 1912, and was reelected in 1921, 1929 and 1938.
He joined the Democratic Left group.
He was vice-president of the Senate from January 1925 to January 1929.
He was appointed Minister of Labor in the 2nd cabinet of
Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré (; 20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France. He was a conservative leader, primarily committed to ...
from 15 January 1922 to 29 March 1924.
He supported shorter working days in return for the gains in efficiency that were assumed to result.
He claimed that the eight-hour day led "to suburbanization, the increase of workers' gardens, greater attendance at professional courses and libraries, and the decline of alcoholism."
On 10 July 1940, he voted in favour of granting the cabinet presided by Marchal
Philippe Pétain
Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain (; 24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), better known as Marshal Pétain (, ), was a French marshal who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the Collaboration with Nazi Ger ...
authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the
French Third Republic
The French Third Republic (, sometimes written as ) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France durin ...
and establishing
Vichy France
Vichy France (; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established as a result of the French capitulation after the Battle of France, ...
.
He then retired from public life.
He died on 18 December 1958 in