Léon Blum

Also known as André Léon Blum, Leon Blum

French politician (1872–1950)

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Léon Blum was a French politician who served as Prime Minister and led the country during a pivotal period in the 1930s and 1940s. He is historically significant as a socialist leader who championed progressive reforms and represented an important democratic voice in France during the rise of fascism in Europe.

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Born: 1872
Died: 1950
Works: 74

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Accords Matignon
Auditions recueillies par la Commission d'enquête parlementaire sur les évènements politiques, économiques, diplomatiques et militaires survenus en France de 1933 à 1945
The Moscow trial and the Labour and Socialist International
Dein Weg zum Sozialismus--
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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: France
Active from: 1872
Active to: 1950

Discography

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Listeners: 47
Total plays: 109

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5 total works indexed

Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,734x
High-performance bulk thermoelectrics with all-scale hierarchical architectures
· 2012 · cited 4,480x
The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Eighth) Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer
· 2016 · cited 3,626x
Large-Scale Machine Learning with Stochastic Gradient Descent
· 2010 · cited 3,366x
Improved silver staining of plant proteins, RNA and DNA in polyacrylamide gels
· 1987 · cited 3,321x

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Quotes

“Although I am not a legalist when it comes to the conquest of power, I am one when it comes to the exercise of power. If parliamentary processes result in our being called upon to exercise power within the framework of existing institutions, we should do so legally and fairly without taking advantage of our presence in government to fraudulently transform the exercise of power into the conquest of power.”

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Image: Léon Blum Meurisse b 1927.jpg

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Commons category: Léon Blum
date of birth: 1872-04-09
date of death: 1950-03-30
birth name: André Léon Blum
Commons Creator page: Léon Blum
name in native language: Léon Blum

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Article

André Léon Blum ( French: [ɑ̃dʁe leɔ̃ blum]; 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France. As a Jew, he was heavily influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 19th century.

Blum was a disciple of socialist leader Jean Jaurès and became his successor after Jaurès' assassination in 1914. Despite Blum's relatively short tenures, his time in office was very influential. As prime minister in the left-wing Popular Front government in 1936–1937, he provided a series of major economic and social reforms. Blum declared neutrality in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) to avoid the civil conflict spilling over into France itself. Once out of office in 1938, he denounced the appeasement of Germany.