- Jean Ybarnegaray
Michel Albert Jean Joseph Ybarnegaray (
16 October 1883 –25 April 1956 ) was a French politician and founder of the International Association forBasque Pelota .Jean Ybarnegaray was born in
Uhart-Cize , Department ofPyrénées-Atlantiques —then called "Basses Pyrénées"—in theNorthern Basque Country . He studied law at theSorbonne andBordeaux University and practised as a lawyer. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in April 1914.On the outbreak of the
First World War he was recalled to service. He was wounded and discharged from the army with theLégion d'honneur , returning to the Chamber of Deputies where he criticised theNivelle Offensive of 1917, the armistice of 1918, and theTreaty of Versailles .A member of the
Fédération républicaine , Ybarnegaray joined theParti Social Français of Colonel de La Rocque in 1938. He was served asMinister of State inPaul Reynaud 's government from10 May 1940 .He served in the first Vichy government, as Minister of State in the first government of Marshal
Philippe Pétain , and as Minister for Veterans and the Family in the second Pétain government. He resigned his office on6 September 1940 .Ybarnegaray had undertaken Resistance activities—assisting escapees cross the
Pyrenees , for which he was arrested in 1943, and detained in theTyrol . Although he was sentenced post-war to loss of civil rights, his resistance activities resulted in the sentence being suspended.He died in
Paris on25 April 1956 .References
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