Pierre Étienne Flandin
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Pierre Étienne Flandin was a French conservative politician of the Third Republic
French Third Republic
The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France...

, leader of the Democratic Republican Alliance
Democratic Republican Alliance
The Democratic Republican Alliance was a French political party created in 1901 by followers of Léon Gambetta, such as Raymond Poincaré who would be president of the Council in the 1920s...

 (ARD), and Prime Minister of France from 8 November 1934 to 31 May 1935.

He held a number of cabinet posts during the inter-war years. Under the premiership of Frédéric François-Marsal
Frédéric François-Marsal
Frédéric François-Marsal was a French Politician of the Third Republic, who served briefly as Prime Minister in 1924. Due to his premiership he also served for two days as the Acting President of the French Republic between resignation of Alexandre Millerand and election of Gaston...

, he was, for just five days in 1924, Minister of Commerce. During the premierships of André Tardieu
André Tardieu
André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu was three times Prime Minister of France and a dominant figure of French political life in 1929-1932.-Biography:...

, he was Minister of Commerce and Industry during 1931 and 1932. Between these posts he served under Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval was a French politician. He was four times President of the council of ministers of the Third Republic, twice consecutively. Following France's Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government, signing orders permitting the deportation of...

 as Finance Minister. In the cabinet of Gaston Doumergue
Gaston Doumergue
Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston Doumergue was a French politician of the Third Republic.Doumergue came from a Protestant family. Beginning as a Radical, he turned more towards the political right in his old age. He served as Prime Minister from 9 December 1913 to 2 June 1914...

 in 1934, he was Minister of Public Works; in November of the same year, he became Prime Minister – a position that lasted only until June 1935. However, during his term as Premier a number of important pacts were negotiated – the Franco–Italian Agreement
Franco–Italian Agreement
On January 7, 1935, the French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini signed the Italo-French agreements in Rome.Pierre Laval succeeded Louis Barthou as Foreign Minister after his assassination in Marseilles at the side of the Alexander I King of Yugoslavia on...

, the Stresa Front
Stresa Front
The Stresa Front was an agreement made in Stresa, a town on the banks of Lake Maggiore in Italy, between French foreign minister Pierre Laval, British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald, and Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini on April 14, 1935...

 and the Franco-soviet pact.

He was the French Foreign Minister when Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 reoccupied the Rhineland
Rhineland
Historically, the Rhinelands refers to a loosely-defined region embracing the land on either bank of the River Rhine in central Europe....

 in 1936.

In December 1940, Vichy
Vichy France
Vichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...

 Chief of State 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...

 appointed him Foreign Minister and vice-premier on 13 December 1940 in replacement of Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval was a French politician. He was four times President of the council of ministers of the Third Republic, twice consecutively. Following France's Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government, signing orders permitting the deportation of...

. He occupied this position for only two months.
He was ousted by François Darlan
François Darlan
Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan was a French naval officer. His great-grandfather was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar...

 in January 1941.

Flandin's Ministry, 8 November 1934 – 1 June 1935

  • Pierre Étienne Flandin – President of the Council
  • Georges Pernot – Vice President of the Council and Minister of Justice
  • Pierre Laval
    Pierre Laval
    Pierre Laval was a French politician. He was four times President of the council of ministers of the Third Republic, twice consecutively. Following France's Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government, signing orders permitting the deportation of...

     – Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Louis Maurin – Minister of War
  • Marcel Régnier – Minister of the Interior
  • Louis Germain-Martin
    Louis Germain-Martin
    Louis Germain-Martin was an Independent Radical French politician. He was Minister of Post and Telecommunications in the government of André Tardieu, and later a Budget Minister, before serving three times as Finance minister for much of the first half of the 1930's....

     – Minister of Finance
  • Paul Jacquier
    Paul Jacquier
    Paul Jacquier was a French senator.-Positions:*MP of Haute-Savoie from 1909 to 1919 and from 1924 to 1935*Senator of Haute-Savoie from 1935 to 1940*Undersecretary of State for Fine Arts on Dec...

     – Minister of Labour
  • François Piétri
    François Piétri
    François Piétri was a minister in several governments in the later years of the French Third Republic and was French ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944 under the Vichy regime....

     – Minister of Military Marine
  • William Bertrand – Minister of Merchant Marine
  • Victor Denain – Minister of Air
  • André Mallarmé – Minister of National Education
  • Georges Rivollet – Minister of Pensions
  • Émile Casset – Minister of Agriculture
  • Louis Rollin – Minister of Colonies
  • Henry Roy – Minister of Public Works
  • Henri Queuille
    Henri Queuille
    Henri Queuille was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister.He was the son of a noblewoman.-First ministry :...

     – Minister of Public Health and Physical Education
  • Georges Mandel
    Georges Mandel
    Georges Mandel was a French politician, journalist, and French Resistance leader.-Biography:Born Louis George Rothschild in Chatou, Yvelines, was the son of a tailor...

     – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
  • Paul Marchandeau
    Paul Marchandeau
    Paul Marchandeau was a French politician. He was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Légion d'honneur, for his actions during World War I. From 1925 until 1942, he was the mayor of Reims...

     – Minister of Commerce and Industry
  • Édouard Herriot
    Édouard Herriot
    Édouard Marie Herriot was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and for many years as President of the Chamber of Deputies....

     – Minister of State
  • Louis Marin
    Louis Marin
    Louis Marin was a French philosopher, historian, semiotician and art critic of the 20th century.He was born in La Tronche, He is usually referred to as a French Post-Structuralism thinker. He attended the University of Paris, Sorbonne and graduated with a Licence in Philosophy in 1952...

    – Minister of State
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