Albert Sarraut

Albert Sarraut
73rd Prime Minister of France
In office
26 October 1933 – 26 November 1933
Preceded by Édouard Daladier
Succeeded by Camille Chautemps
In office
24 January 1936 – 4 June 1936
Preceded by Pierre Laval
Succeeded by Léon Blum
Personal details
Born 28 July 1872
Bordeaux, Gironde, Second French Empire
Died 26 November 1962(1962-11-26) (aged 90)
Paris, France
Political party Radical

Albert-Pierre Sarraut (French: [albɛʁ saʁo]; 28 July 1872 – 26 November 1962) was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic.

Biography

Sarraut was born on 28 July 1872 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.

On 14 March 1907 Sarraut, senator of Aude and under-secretary of state for the Interior, was ridiculed by Clemenceau for trying to plead the case of his electorate during the revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers. Clemenceau told Sarraut, "I know the South, it will all end with a banquet".[1] After massive demonstrations in the winegrowing region in June 1907 Clemenceau asked Sarraut to bring the leader Ernest Ferroul to the negotiating table. Ferroul told him: "When we have three million men behind us, we do not negotiate".[2] From 17 June 1907 the Midi was occupied by 22 regiments of infantry and 12 regiments of cavalry.[3] The gendarmerie was ordered to imprison the leaders of the demonstrations. Sarraut refused to endorse this policy and resigned from the government.[1]

He was Governor-General of French Indochina, from 1912 to 1914 and from 1917 to 1919. On 18 January 1920 he replaced Henry Simon as Minister of the Colonies.

On 10 July 1940, Sarraut voted in favour of granting the Cabinet presided over by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France. Thereafter Sarraut retired from politics. He took control of the family newspaper, La Dépêche de Toulouse, after the editor, his brother Maurice Sarraut, was killed by the Milice in 1943.

Sarraut died in Paris on 26 November 1962.

Sarraut's First Ministry, 26 October – 26 November 1933

Sarraut's Second Ministry, 24 January – 4 June 1936

Further reading

  • Thomas, Martin (2005), "Albert Sarraut, French Colonial Development, and the Communist Threat, 1919–1930", The Journal of Modern History, 77 (4): 917–955, doi:10.1086/499830 .

References

Sources

  • Bon, Nicolas, "Midi 1907, l'histoire d'une révolte vigneronne", vin-terre-net.com (in French)
  • Castillon, René (19 June 2007), "Le 19 juin 1907, la crise de la viticulture languedocienne débouche...", La Vie (in French), retrieved 2018-03-01
  • Ferré, Georges (March 2007), "Le Midi viticole, rouge de colère", historia.fr (in French)
Political offices
Preceded by
Édouard Daladier		 Prime Ministers of France
1933		 Succeeded by
Camille Chautemps
Preceded by
Pierre Laval		 Prime Ministers of France
1936		 Succeeded by
Léon Blum
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