Albert Sarraut

Albert Sarraut
Albert-Pierre Sarraut (28 July 1872 – 26 November 1962) was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic.
Biography
Sarraut was born on 28 July 1872 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
On 14 March 1907 Sarraut, Senator of Aude and Under-Secretary of State for the Interior, was ridiculed by Clemenceau for trying to plead the case of his electorate during the revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers.
Clemenceau told Sarraut, "I know the South, it will all end with a banquet".
After massive demonstrations in the winegrowing region in June 1907 Clemenceau asked Sarraut to bring the leader Ernest Ferroul to the negotiating table.
Ferroul told him: "When we have three million men behind us, we do not negotiate".
From 17 June 1907 the Midi was occupied by 22 regiments of infantry and 12 regiments of cavalry.
The gendarmerie was ordered to imprison the leaders of the demonstrations.
Sarraut refused to endorse this policy and resigned from the government.
He was Governor-General of French Indochina, from 1912 to 1914 and from 1917 to 1919.
Although Sarraut was celebrated for native education reform, his motivation was an example of paternalism. He believed that the Vietnamese could not be civilized until their thinking, customs and institutions mirrored those of the French. According to Hue Tam Ho Tai, if Sarraut's argument was carried to its logical conclusion, the Vietnamese, she writes, would "deserve independence from French rule only when they no longer desired to be Vietnamese, but Frenchmen in yellow skin."
Albert Sarraut supported actively the preservation and development of native arts, for instance supporting the French art scholar George Groslier in preserving Cambodian arts and cultural traditions, and funding the design and construction of the National Museum of Cambodia.
On 18 January 1920 he replaced Henry Simon as Minister of the Colonies.
Acting as Minister of the Interior for the Édouard Daladier run government, Sarrault became increasingly concerned with what he considered a flood of Spanish refugees fleeing the Francoist regime during the Spanish Civil War. In April 1938 Sarrault released a statement calling for the "methodical, energetic and prompt action to rid our country of the too numerous undesirable elements".
On 10 July 1940, Sarraut voted in favour of granting the Cabinet presided over by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France. Thereafter Sarraut retired from politics. He took control of the family newspaper, La Dépêche de Toulouse, after the editor, his brother Maurice Sarraut, was killed by the Milice in 1943.
Sarraut died in Paris on 26 November 1962. The Lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi was named after him.
Sarraut's First Ministry, 26 October – 26 November 1933
Albert Sarraut – President of the Council and Minister of Marine
Albert Dalimier – Vice President of the Council and Minister of Justice
Joseph Paul-Boncour – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Édouard Daladier – Minister of War
Camille Chautemps – Minister of the Interior
Georges Bonnet – Minister of Finance
Abel Gardey – Minister of Budget
Eugène Frot – Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions
Jacques Stern – Minister of Merchant Marine
Pierre Cot – Minister of Air
Anatole de Monzie – Minister of National Education
Hippolyte Ducos – Minister of Pensions
Henri Queuille – Minister of Agriculture
François Piétri – Minister of Colonies
Joseph Paganon – Minister of Public Works
Émile Lisbonne – Minister of Public Health
Jean Mistler – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
Laurent Eynac – Minister of Commerce and Industry
Sarraut's Second Ministry, 24 January – 4 June 1936
Albert Sarraut – President of the Council and Minister of the Interior
Pierre Étienne Flandin – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Louis Maurin – Minister of War
Marcel Régnier – Minister of Finance
Ludovic-Oscar Frossard – Minister of Labour
Léon Bérard – Minister of Justice
François Piétri – Minister of Marine
Louis de Chappedelaine – Minister of Merchant Marine
Marcel Déat – Minister of Air
Henri Guernut – Minister of National Education
René Besse – Minister of Pensions
Paul Thellier – Minister of Agriculture
Jacques Stern – Minister of Colonies
Camille Chautemps – Minister of Public Works
Louis Nicolle – Minister of Public Health and Physical Education
Georges Mandel – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
Georges Bonnet – Minister of Commerce and Industry
Joseph Paul-Boncour – Minister of State and Permanent Delegate to the League of Nations
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1872 births
1962 deaths
Politicians from Bordeaux
Radical Party (France) politicians
Prime Ministers of France
Ministers of Marine
French Ministers of Overseas France
French interior ministers
French Ministers of National Education
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Members of the 8th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 9th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 10th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 11th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 12th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of Parliament for Aude
French senators of the Third Republic
Senators of Aude
Governors-General of French Indochina
Ambassadors of France to Turkey
20th-century French newspaper publishers (people)
Neuengamme concentration camp survivors
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