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Armand Chouffet was born on March 4, 1895 in Hérimoncourt, a small town situated in the East of France and died on October, 28th 1958 in Villefranche-sur-Saône. He is a French politician. == Biography == After the World War I, he appears as an escapee from a German cell in 1917, where he was held since June, 1916.〔Jean Jolly (dir.), ''Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, notices biographiques sur les ministres, sénateurs et députés français de 1889 à 1940'', Paris, PUF, 1960, p. 1051. (French)〕 Son of a butcher, he becomes a lawyer and admits to the Bars of Lyon, and then Villefranche-sur-Saône in 1924. In 1925, he becomes the Mayor of Villefranche-sur-Saône and will constantly be re-elected with an interruption between 1941 and 1947. In 1928, he becomes a Member of Parliament and is re-elected in 1932. As a Mayor, he contributes modernizing the city, endowing it with a covered market, a new hall town and several sports facilities as well. In the Chamber of Deputies, he is very involved over military matters, obtaining by the way the vice-presidency of the Armed Forces Committee. Re-elected in 1936 at the same time of the victory of the Popular Front, he votes in favour of the delegation of full powers to Marshall Pétain on July, 1940. In Vichy, Armand Chouffet signs the declaration about the National Assembly. This document, made by Gaston Bergery, denounces the Third Republic, claims a new authoritarian, national and social order; asks for the return of the government in Paris and call for renewed relationships with Germany. It is in this text the “collaboration” term appears for the first time. However, Armand Chouffet doesn’t move ahead in this path, and his attitude over Vichy’s government costs him to be dismissed from his mandate in 1941. He becomes one of the main responsible of the Network called “Mithridate” from 1942 to the end of hostilities. Despite controversies with local resistants about his vote in favour of Pétain, he gets back the town hall of Villefranche sur Saône in 1947. In 1956, he is reintegrated within the Socialist party. His funeral in 1958 led to a large public gathering. Today, his chest takes centre stage in the town hall and a huge sports complex bears his name. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Armand Chouffet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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