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- 1966
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- Letter from Paul Reynaud to Marshall Petain, written from his prison in April 1941
- Jeunesse, quelle France veux-tu?
- Présentation du gouvernement
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Paul Reynaud ( French: [pɔl ʁɛno]; 15 October 1878 – 21 September 1966) was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his economic liberalism and vocal opposition to Nazi Germany.
Reynaud opposed the Munich Agreement of September 1938, when France and the United Kingdom gave way before Hitler's proposals for the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. After the outbreak of World War II, Reynaud became the penultimate Prime Minister of the Third Republic in March 1940. He was also vice-president of the Democratic Republican Alliance center-right party. Reynaud was Prime Minister during the German defeat of France in May and June 1940; he persistently refused to support an armistice with Germany and unsuccessfully attempted to save France from German occupation in World War II, and resigned on 16 June.
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1878 births1966 deaths20th-century French lawyersActivists from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurBurials at Montparnasse CemeteryDemocratic and Social Action politiciansDemocratic Republican Alliance politiciansDeputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fifth RepublicDeputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth RepublicDeputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic