Mort de georges marchais biography
Communist leader, French CP.
Mort de georges marchais biography
Georges Marchais
French politician (1920–1997)
Georges René Louis Marchais (French pronunciation:[ʒɔʁʒ(ə)ʁənelwimaʁʃɛ]; 7 June 1920 – 16 November 1997) was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1972 to 1994, and a candidate in the 1981 French presidential election.
Early life
Born in La Hoguette into a Roman Catholic family, he became a mechanic, just before the beginning of World War II, with the Société Nationale d'Étude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation.[1] After the fall of France, he went to Nazi Germany to work in the Messerschmitt aircraft manufacturing plant.[2] He returned to France in May 1943 with forged documents.[3] In 1946, he became secretary of the metalworkers' trade union in Issy-les-Moulineaux, and advanced in the Confédération générale du travail in his commune from 1951, becoming secretary of the Seine Metallurgical Workers' Union Federation from 1953 to 1956.
Political career
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