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Pierre Jean Marie Laval (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ laval]; 28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician. During the Third Republic, he served as Prime Minister of France from 1931 to 1932 and from 1935 to 1936. He again occupied the post during the German occupation, from 1942 to 1944.
Pierre Laval (born June 28, 1883, Châteldon, France—died Oct. 15, 1945, Paris) was a French politician and statesman who led the Vichy government in policies of collaboration with Germany during World War II, for which he was ultimately executed as a traitor to France.
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Pierre Laval, né le 28 juin 1883 à Châteldon (Puy-de-Dôme) et mort exécuté le 15 octobre 1945 à la prison de Fresnes , est un homme d'État français. Sous la Troisième République , maire d' Aubervilliers et parlementaire de la Seine puis du Puy-de-Dôme, il est membre de la Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) avant ...
Feb 9, 2010 · Pierre Laval, the puppet leader of Nazi-occupied Vichy France, was shot by firing squad on October 15, 1945. He had collaborated with the Nazi programs of oppression and genocide and tried to escape to Germany after the Allied liberation of France.
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In 1926 Laval was elected to the Senate and continued his movement to the right. Often a minister in the late 1920s, he became premier for the first time in January 1931. Brought down after a year in office over a question of fiscal policy, he served as prime ministeronce more from June 1935 to January 1936. Before 1940 Laval had his greatest impac...
Out of office after 1936, Laval in 1939 was an advocate of peace at any price. After the fall of France in June 1940, he joined the government of Marshal Philippe Pétain as the chief minister. Instrumental in securing parliamentary ratification of the armistice terms and the granting of full constituent powers to Pétain, Laval during the last 6 mon...
Laval states his own case in The Diary of Pierre Laval (1948). There is no good study of him in any language. The best short biographies are David Thomson, Two Frenchmen: Pierre Laval and Charles De Gaulle (1951), and Hubert Cole, Laval: A Biography (1963), both of which are sympathetic without being apologetic. There is an interesting psychoanalyt...
Pierre Laval (1883-1945) was a controversial figure in French history who served as chief minister in the Vichy regime during World War II. He was executed by the provisional government of Charles De Gaulle after a controversial trial for treason.
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LAVAL, PIERRE (1883–1945) Head of the Vichy government in France during World War II; considered by many to be the evil mastermind of collaboration. Pierre Laval was born in Châteldon, in the Auvergne, to a family of shopkeepers. He did well in school, earning his Certificate of Primary Studies at twelve.
Pierre Laval was a French politician who rose from revolutionary Socialism to become a leading figure in the Vichy regime during World War II. Learn about his career, his policies, and his role in the fall of France in 1940.
