Auguste Champetier de Ribes (30 July 1882, Antony, Hauts-de-Seine

Antony, Hauts-de-Seine

-Personalities:Antony was the birthplace of:* Nicola Sirkis singer with the French band Indochine* Agnès Jaoui screenwriter, film director and actress* Laurent Lafforgue , mathematician-International relations:...

 – 6 March 1947, Paris) was a French

France

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 politician and jurist

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.

A devout Catholic, he was an early follower of Albert de Mun and social Christianity. Wounded in the First World War, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from the Basses-Pyrénées as a Christian democrat (PDP) from 1924 to 1934. He was Senator from 1934 to 1940. He served as a junior minister or minister in various governments led by André Tardieu

André Tardieu

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, Édouard Daladier

Édouard Daladier

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, Paul Reynaud

Paul Reynaud

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, and Pierre Laval

Pierre Laval

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.

In 1940, he was amongst the 80 parliamentarians that refused to give Pétain

Philippe Pétain

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 full powers (see The Vichy 80

The Vichy 80

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) and served in the Combat

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 resistance movement. An early support of Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle

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, he was named by the Provisional Government of the French Republic

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 as the French representative during the Nuremberg Trials

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. Upon his return, he was elected President of the Council of the Republic (the name given to the body now known as the French Senate

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) by the benefit of age. He had tied Communist Georges Marrane

Georges Marrane

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, but was elected because he was older than Marrane. Two days later, he was the defeated MRP

Popular Republican Movement

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 candidate in the French presidential election, 1947

French presidential election, 1947

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. His health prevented him from assuming his role as President of the Council and died in office.