Léon Blum - Wikipedia
André Léon Blum (French: [ɑ̃dʁe leɔ̃ blum]; [1] 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.
Léon Blum | French Socialist Prime Minister & WW2 Resistance …
Léon Blum (born April 9, 1872, Paris—died March 30, 1950, Jouy-en-Josas, France) was the first Socialist (and the first Jewish) premier of France, presiding over the Popular Front coalition government in 1936–37. Blum was born into an Alsatian Jewish family.
Léon Blum — Wikipédia
Léon Blum [l e ɔ̃ ˈ b l u m] [b], né le 9 avril 1872 à Paris 2 e et mort le 30 mars 1950 à Jouy-en-Josas, est un homme d'État français. Figure du socialisme, il est président du Conseil de juin 1936 à juin 1937 et de mars à avril 1938, puis président du Gouvernement provisoire de la République française de décembre 1946 à ...
Léon Blum summary | Britannica
Léon Blum, (born April 9, 1872, Paris, France—died March 30, 1950, Jouy-en-Josas), French politician and writer. He made a name as a brilliant literary and drama critic, then entered politics in the French Socialist Party.
Leon Blum | Encyclopedia.com
May 23, 2018 · The French statesman Léon Blum (1872-1950) was the first Socialist, as well as the first Jewish, premier of France. In 1936 the government he headed enacted the most extensive program of social reforms in French history.
A Surprising Prime Minister - The New York Review of Books
Aug 13, 2015 · Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist. When Léon Blum became president of the Council of Ministers of France—in effect, prime minister—on June 6, 1936, a world was turned on its head.
Popular Front (France) - Wikipedia
Three months after the victory of the Spanish Popular Front, the Popular Front won the May 1936 legislative election, leading to the formation of a government first headed by SFIO leader Léon Blum and composed of republican and SFIO ministers. …
Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist (Jewish Lives)
May 26, 2015 · Léon Blum (1872–1950), France’s prime minister three times, socialist activist, and courageous opponent of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, profoundly altered French society.
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Léon Blum - Oxford Reference
Prime Minister of France 1936–7, 1938, 1946–7 Of a Jewish family from the Alsace, the journalist was drawn into politics by the Dreyfus Affair.
Blum, determined that the Popular Front government would be a government of the 'public good' which would aim at the moral and material regeneration of France and of Europe, prepared to take office for the first time at the age of 64. It seemed that the coming to power of such a government, with such a