Vincent Badie (16 July 1902 – 8 September 1989) was a French lawyer and politician.
biography
Vincent Henri Badie was born in
Béziers
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and practised as a lawyer at
Montpellier
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. He was elected as Radical Party (PRS: ''Parti Radical Socialiste'') candidate to the
Chamber of Deputies
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Description
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in 1936 representing
Hérault
Hérault (; , ) is a departments of France, department of the Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Southern France. Named after the Hérault (river), Hérault River, its Prefectures in France, prefecture is M ...
Second World War
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, in June 1940, he was one of the 80 who voted against the grant of special powers to
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 ...
and the creation of the
Vichy régime
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. "Vive la République quand même!" (Long live the Republic all the same!). His opposition to Vichy led to his removal as mayor in 1941, and he was arrested and deported to
Dachau concentration camp
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.
After the war he was again elected to parliament, again serving in the lower chamber, now called the
National Assembly
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. He represented Hérault until 1958.
He served in government under
Edgar Faure
Edgar Jean Faure (; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.Minister of Veterans and War Victims from 20 October 1955 to 1 February 1956 and again under
Pierre Pflimlin
Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin (; 5 February 1907 – 27 June 2000) was a French Christian Democrat politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the ...
from 14 May 1958 to 1 June 1958.
He did not support
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free France, Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Re ...
in 1958 and opposed the creation of the
Fifth French Republic
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The Fifth Republic emerged from the collapse of the Fourth Re ...
. He died at Montpellier.
Historian Jean Sagnes published a series of interviews with Badie in ''Vive la République'' (Toulouse, 1987).