Paul-Boncour, Joseph

Paul-Boncour, Joseph

▪ French politician
born Aug. 4, 1873, Saint-Aignan, France
died March 28, 1972, Paris
 French leftist politician who was minister of labour, of war, and of foreign affairs and, for four years, France's permanent representative to the League of Nations.

      After receiving a degree in law from the University of Paris, Paul-Boncour practiced law, organized the legal council of the Bourses du Travail (syndicalist workers' associations), and from 1898 to 1902 was private secretary to Premier Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau. He was elected deputy from his native district in 1909 and served as minister of labour in 1911. He lost his seat in the Chamber in 1914 but was returned to the National Assembly after World War I as a Socialist. In 1931, however, he resigned from the Socialist Party and formed a new group, the Union Socialiste Républicaine, composed of independents. That same year he was elected senator and served until the establishment of Marshal Philippe Pétain's Vichy government in 1940.

      Paul-Boncour was permanent delegate to the League of Nations from 1932 to 1936, minister of war in the 1932 cabinet of Édouard Herriot, premier from December 1932 to January 1933, and minister of foreign affairs from December 1932 to January 1934, from January to June 1936, and in March 1938. In July 1940 he voted against granting constitutional powers to Marshal Pétain and recommended continuation of the war against Germany from Algiers. A member of the Consultative Assembly in 1944, he led the French delegation at San Francisco and signed the United Nations Charter on behalf of France. He was a senator from 1946 to 1948.

      Paul-Boncour's books Le Féderalisme économique (1900; “Economic Federalism”) and Les Syndicats de fonctionnaires (1906; “Unions of Civil Servants”) showed his interest in trade unionism. He is also the author of Art et démocratie (1912; “Art and Democracy”) and Entre deux guerres: souvenirs sur la IIIe République (1946; Recollections of the Third Republic).

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