Georges Izard
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Georges Izard was a French politician, lawyer, journalist and essayist.
in Meurthe-et-Moselle
against a candidate of the extreme-right, Pierre Amidieu du Clos.
In 1940, as a volunteer soldier, he was taken as a prisoner of war by the Germans. Released for reasons of health, he joined the resistance as part of the Organisation civile et militaire
(OCM). From November 1944, he was a member of Provisional Consultative Assembly Constituent Assembly of the Fourth Republic
. He was Secretary-General of the OCM from 1945 to 1948.
He then pursued a successful legal career. In November 1971 he was named to the Académie Française
.
He died on 20 September 1973.
Life
He was named chief of staff to Charles Daniélou, then the minister of the merchant marine, whose daughter he married in 1929. ON 26 April 1936, he was elected member of parliament as a candidate of the Frontist PartyFrontist Party
The ' was a political party in France founded in 1936 by Gaston Bergery and Georges Izard. The PF participated in the Popular Front. Gaston Bergery, a former member of the left wing of the Radical-Socialist Party, where he was known as a "Radical-Bolshevik" for his left-wing leanings and staunch...
in Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle is a department in the Lorraine region of France, named after the Meurthe and Moselle rivers.- History :Meurthe-et-Moselle was created in 1871 at the end of the Franco-Prussian War from the parts of the former departments of Moselle and Meurthe which remained French...
against a candidate of the extreme-right, Pierre Amidieu du Clos.
In 1940, as a volunteer soldier, he was taken as a prisoner of war by the Germans. Released for reasons of health, he joined the resistance as part of the Organisation civile et militaire
Organisation civile et militaire
The Organisation civile et militaire was one of the great movements of the French Resistance in the zone occupée, the northern German-occupied region of France, during the Second World War....
(OCM). From November 1944, he was a member of Provisional Consultative Assembly Constituent Assembly of the Fourth Republic
French Fourth Republic
The French Fourth Republic was the republican government of France between 1946 and 1958, governed by the fourth republican constitution. It was in many ways a revival of the Third Republic, which was in place before World War II, and suffered many of the same problems...
. He was Secretary-General of the OCM from 1945 to 1948.
He then pursued a successful legal career. In November 1971 he was named to the Académie Française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
.
He died on 20 September 1973.
Works
- La Pensée de Charles PéguyCharles PéguyCharles Péguy was a noted French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a devout but non-practicing Roman Catholic.From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his...
(with Emmanuel MounierEmmanuel MounierEmmanuel Mounier was a French philosopher.Mounier was the guiding spirit in the French Personalist movement, and founder and director of Esprit, the magazine which was the organ of the movement. Mounier, who was the child of peasants, was a brilliant scholar at the Sorbonne...
and Marcel Péguy, 1931) - Où va le communisme ? L'évolution du parti communiste. Les textes (1936)
- La Bataille de la France (Avec André Deléage, Georges Duveau, Jules Roman et L.-E. Galeÿ, 1938)
- Les Classes moyennes (1938)
- Les Coulisses de la Convention (1939)
- Principes de droit civil, Cours professé à l'École supérieure d'organisation professionnelle (1944)
- L'Homme est révolutionnaire (1945)
- Principes de droit civil, Cours professé à l'École nationale d'organisation économique et sociale (1946)
- Viol d'un mausolée, le sens et l'avenir de la déstalinisation (1957)
- Lettre affligée au général de GaulleCharles de GaulleCharles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....
(1964) - Sainte Catherine de Gênes et l'au-delà (1969)