- Jean Odin
Jean Ernest Sébastien Odin (
20 January 1889 –16 October 1975 ) was a French politician.Odin was born in
Bordeaux , where his father worked as a ship's captain. At a young age Odin moved toNoumea ,New Caledonia , where his father had been transferred, and attended school there.Upon his return to France, Odin became a lawyer's clerk. Receiving a
bursary , he resumed his studies and qualified as a lawyer. By 1917, he was anadvocate in Bordeaux, and later inParis .He ran unsuccessfully as a Radical in the 1919 and 1924 elections to represent
Gironde in the Chamber of Deputies, but succeeded in 1928. In 1932 he was elected to the Senate. He served as a member, and then as secretary, of the Senate committee which dealt withFrench Navy affairs.Jean Odin was one of the eighty who voted against granting special powers to Marshal
Philippe Pétain on10 July 1940 . His mandate expired on31 December 1941 , ending his political career.Odin wrote a number of books, "Une cause célèbre : le Mystère de l'Ancre Bleue" which dealt with the case of Jean-Pierre Vaquier, hanged for the murder of Alfred Jones, with which Odin had been involved in London in 1924. His other successful work was "Les Quatre-Vingts" on those who had opposed the creation of the
Vichy regime .He was made a chevalier of the
Légion d'honneur . He died inBordeaux .References
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