Pierre Mathé
Pierre Mathé | |
|---|---|
| Born | Pierre Cyprien Mathé 1 August 1882 |
| Died | 3 June 1956 (aged 73) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Politician |
Political party | French Agrarian and Peasant Party |
Pierre Mathé (1882-1956) was a French conservative agrarian politician.
Early life
Pierre Mathé was born on 1 August 1882 in Giry, rural France.[1][2]
Career
Mathé joined the French Agrarian and Peasant Party, an agrarian conservative political party, and became its President. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Côte-d'Or from 1936 to 1942.[1]
He co-authored Le manifeste paysan: essai d'une doctrine humaniste appliquée à l'agriculture française with François de Clermont-Tonnerre, published in 1937.[2]
On 10 July 1940, Mathé voted in favour of granting the cabinet presided by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France. In November 1941, he was made a member of the National Council of Vichy France.[3]
Death
References
- 1882 births
- 1956 deaths
- People from Nièvre
- French Agrarian and Peasant Party politicians
- Members of the 16th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- Members of Parliament for Côte-d'Or
- Members of the National Council of Vichy France
- People convicted of indignité nationale
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté politician stubs