Jules Émile Jeanneney was a French

France

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 lawyer and politician.

Jules Jeanneney was born in Besançon

Besançon

Besançon , is the capital and principal city of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It had a population of about 237,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2008...

 in the department of Doubs

Doubs

Doubs is a department the Franche-Comté region of eastern France named after the Doubs River.-History:As early as the 13th century, inhabitants of the northern two-thirds of Doubs spoke the Franc-Comtois language, a dialect of Langue d'Oïl. Residents of the southern third of Doubs spoke a dialect...

. His mother died soon after his birth, leaving his father, an auctioneer, to raise the child. Jeanneney said that he felt that his mother's death affected him greatly in later life. He studied law at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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 and practised as a lawyer.

At the urging of René Waldeck-Rousseau

René Waldeck-Rousseau

this gy was coolPierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau was a French Republican statesman.-Early life:Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau was born in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique...

 Jeanneney entered politics in 1896 when he was elected mayor of Rioz

Rioz

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. In 1902 he stood in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies

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 and was elected to represent Haute-Saône

Haute-Saône

Haute-Saône is a French department of the Franche-Comté région, named after the Saône River.- History :The department was created in the early years of the French Revolution through the application of a law dated 22 December 1789, from part of the former province of Franche-Comté...

. In 1909 he was elected to the Senate where he supported the Democratic Republican Alliance

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. He would remain a Senator until 1944.

Jeanneney was elected Vice-President in 1924, then he headed the important Finance committee until 1932 when he was elected President of the Senate to replace Albert Lebrun

Albert Lebrun

Albert François Lebrun was a French politician, President of France from 1932 to 1940. He was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the center-right Democratic Republican Alliance .-Biography:...

. As President of the Senate, Jeanneney led the debate on 10 July 1940 which resulted in the granting of extraordinary powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain

Philippe Pétain

Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...

 and the creation of the Vichy Regime. Jeanneney accepted these results rather than seeking them and along with Édouard Daladier

Édouard Daladier

Édouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.-Career:Daladier was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. Later, he would become known to many as "the bull of Vaucluse" because of his thick neck and large shoulders and determined...

 protested at the use Pétain made of his powers.

Jeanneney served as Minister of State

Minister of State

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 with responsibility for reforming the administration in Charles de Gaulle

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's Provisional Government

Provisional Government of the French Republic

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 from 1944 to 1945. He died in Paris

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 in 1957.

Jeanneney's son Jean-Marcel Jeanneney

Jean-Marcel Jeanneney

Jean-Marcel Jeanneney was a minister in various French governments in the 1950s and 60s, as well as France's first ambassador to Algeria in the immediate aftermath of the Algerian War...

 and his grandson Jean-Noël Jeanneney

Jean-Noël Jeanneney

Jean-Noël Jeanneney is a French historian and politician, born on 2 April 1942 in Grenoble. He is the son of Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and the grandson of Jules Jeanneney, both important figures in French politics.-Education:...

were active in French politics.