- Vincent Badie
Vincent Badie (
16 July 1902 –8 September 1989 ) was a French lawyer and politician.Vincent Henri Badie was born in
Béziers and practised as a lawyer atMontpellier . He was elected as Radical Party (PRS: "Parti Radicale-Socialiste") candidate to the Chamber of Deputies in 1936 representingHérault . He also served as mayor ofPaulhan .During the
Second World War , in June 1940, he was one of the 80 who voted against the grant of special powers toPhilippe Pétain and the creation of the Vichy régime. "Vive la République quand même!" (Long live the Republic all the same!). His opposition to Vichy led to his removal as mayor in 1941, and he was arrested and deported toDachau concentration camp .After the war he was again elected to parliament, again serving in the lower chamber, now called the National Assembly. He represented Hérault until 1958.
He served in government under
Edgar Faure as Minister of Veterans and War Victims from20 October 1955 to1 February 1956 and again underPierre Pflimlin from14 May 1958 to1 June 1958 .He did not support
Charles de Gaulle in 1958 and opposed the creation of theFifth French Republic . He died at Montpellier.Historian Jean Sagnes published a series of interviews with Badie in "Vive la République" (Toulouse, 1987).
External link
* [http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/biographies/IVRepublique/badie-vincent-henri-16071902.asp Biography] at the website of the National Assembly
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