René Capitant
René Marie Alphonse Charles Capitant (La Tronche, August 19, 1901 – May 23, 1970 in Suresnes) was a French lawyer and politician.
He was the son of a lawyer, Henri Capitant, and attended the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. He received his Juris Doctorate degree also in Paris.
In 1930, he was appointed to the faculty of the University of Strasbourg and became a member of the Comité de vigilance des inteelectuels antifascistes, an anti-fascist organization of intellecuals.
Durint World War II, he was involved in the creation of the resistance movement Combat in Clermont-Ferrand. He had to leave the country became a law professor at the University of Algiers in 1941. After the Liberation, he became secretary of public education in the provisional government.
For 1945 to 1951, he was a leftist Gaullist deputy. In 1946, he founded, with Louis Vallon, the Union gaulliste.
After 1951, he was a law professor in Paris and was named director of the Franco-Japanese House in Tokyo from 1957 to 1960. He was then re-elected deputy from 1962 to 1968.
He served as the Minister of Justice (Garde des Sceaux) in the Georges Pompidou government from 1968 to 1969.
References
- French Wikipedia article on René Capitant
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