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Contents. Léon Blum. For the lawn bowler, see Leon Blum (bowls). André Léon Blum (French: [ɑ̃dʁe leɔ̃ blum]; [ 1 ] 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France. As a Jew, he was heavily influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 19th century. He was a disciple of socialist ...
May 28, 2015 · The socialist (and anti-Soviet) politician Léon Blum was France’s first Jewish prime minister from 1936 to 1938. After Paris fell to the Nazis in 1940, Blum was one of a small group of parliamentarians who wanted France to keep fighting. He was promptly imprisoned by the Vichy regime.
Oct 24, 2015 · By Birnbaum referred to as ‘the heir of Jaurès’, Léon Blum fervently came to believe in the ideals of the French republic and opted for a ‘republican (non-communist) socialism’, a position that epitomized the permanent schism in the French socialist movement. We might question the vailidity of Birnbaum’s use of the term ‘heir ...
- Laurien Vastenhout
- 2015
For the first time, the Socialists won more seats than the Radical-Socialists, and the Socialist leader, Léon Blum, became the first Socialist Prime Minister of France and the first Jew to hold that office. The first Popular Front cabinet consisted of 20 Socialists, 13 Radical-Socialists and two Socialist Republicans (there were no Communist Ministers) and, for the first time, included three ...
Léon Blum [l e ɔ̃ ˈ b l u m] [b], né le 9 avril 1872 à Paris 2 e et mort le 30 mars 1950 à Jouy-en-Josas, est un homme d'État français.Figure du socialisme, il est président du Conseil de juin 1936 à juin 1937 et de mars à avril 1938, puis président du Gouvernement provisoire de la République française de décembre 1946 à janvier 1947.
Search for: 'Léon Blum' in Oxford Reference ». (b. 9 Apr. 1872, d. 30 Mar. 1950).Prime Minister of France 1936–7, 1938, 1946–7 Of a Jewish family from the Alsace, the journalist was drawn into politics by the Dreyfus Affair. As secretary from 1916 he was instrumental in reforming the Socialist Party (SFIO) towards pragmatism, and in 1936 ...
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Aug 13, 2015 · When Léon Blum became president of the Council of Ministers of France—in effect, prime minister—on June 6, 1936, a world was turned on its head. He was the first socialist ever to occupy that position in France, and the first avowed Jew to head a major modern government anywhere (Benjamin Disraeli had converted at the age of twelve to the Church of England).
