Pierre Mathé | |
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Born | Pierre Cyprien Mathé 1 August 1882 |
Died | 3 June 1956
Paris, France | (aged 73)
Occupation | Politician |
Political party | French Agrarian and Peasant Party |
Pierre Mathé (1882-1956) was a French farmer and agrarian conservative politician.
Pierre Mathé was born on 1 August 1882 in Giry, rural France. [1] [2]
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]
He died on 3 June 1956 in Paris, France. [1] [2]