40 Facts About Adolphe Landry

Adolphe Landry was deputy and then senator for Corsica between 1910 and 1955.

Adolphe Landry was Minister of the Navy from 1920 to 1921, Minister of Public Education for two days in June 1924 and Minister of Labor and Social Security from 1931 to 1932.

Adolphe Landry was the author of several books on economics and demographics.

Adolphe Landry saw that countries like France had moved from an age of high birth rates and high mortality, with the size of the population determined by the amount of food available, through a transition period to an age of low birth rates and long lives.

Michel Auguste Adolphe Landry was born on 29 September 1874 in Ajaccio, Corsica, to an old Corsican family.

Adolphe Landry had one brother, who became director of the French Institute in Florence, and three sisters.

Adolphe Landry attended secondary school in Nimes, where his father was president of the tribunal, then at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand.

Adolphe Landry was admitted to the Ecole Normale Superieure, where he gained an agregation de philosophie, which qualified him as an associate professor in philosophy.

Adolphe Landry then turned to the law, which he studied at the Sorbonne.

Adolphe Landry condemned capitalism and its obsession with profit, and saw value in a form of socialism that incorporated marginalism and liberalism.

Adolphe Landry ran for election to the chamber of deputies on 6 May 1906 but did not succeed.

Adolphe Landry ran again for the Calvi constituency in 1910 and this time was elected in the second round.

In 1912 Adolphe Landry became a member of the board of the natalist Alliance nationale contre le depopulation.

Adolphe Landry was influential in obtaining the passage of the 1913 law for assistance to large families.

Adolphe Landry ran for reelection for Calvi on 26 April 1914 and won in the first round.

Adolphe Landry was extremely active on issues such as workers' and peasants' pensions, family income tax, trade and finance.

On 16 November 1919 Adolphe Landry was reelected on the platform of the Corsican Democratic Republican Party.

Adolphe Landry was elected vice-president of the chamber in 1923, and reelected in 1924.

On 11 May 1924 Adolphe Landry was reelected on the platform of the Corsican Democratic Republican Party.

On 22 April 1928 Adolphe Landry was easily elected as deputy for Ajaccio.

Adolphe Landry was often rapporteur of projects or proposed laws related to social or family issues, notably the 1930 Social Assurance Law.

Adolphe Landry was elected senator on 14 January 1930 but resigned on 13 February 1930 and returned to the chamber.

Adolphe Landry was appointed Minister of Labor and Social Security in the 1st and 2nd cabinets of Pierre Laval, from 27 January 1931 to 16 February 1932.

Adolphe Landry passed the law that extended family allowances to all workers in commerce and industry.

Adolphe Landry lost again in the elections on 26 April 1936, but the result was invalidated, and he was elected in a fresh vote on 30 August 1936.

Adolphe Landry was again involved in proposals related to family and social problems.

Adolphe Landry abstained from voting on the draft constitutional law on 10 July 1940 that established the Vichy government.

Adolphe Landry was appointed chairman of the committee on the cost of the enemy occupation, then as a member of the high consultative committee on population and the family.

Adolphe Landry was charged with advising the government on matters related to protecting the family, increasing the birthrate and integrating foreigners.

Adolphe Landry was elected to the first National Consultative Assembly on 21 October 1945, and then to the second National Consultative Assembly on 2 June 1946.

Adolphe Landry failed to be elected to the legislature in the elections of November 1946, but was elected Councilor of the Republic on 8 December 1946.

Adolphe Landry joined the Rally of Left Republicans in the Council of the Republic.

Adolphe Landry was again active in discussions on social issues.

Adolphe Landry did not run for reelection on 19 June 1955.

Adolphe Landry died on 30 August 1956 in Paris at the age of 81.

Adolphe Landry identified three demographic stages, the last being stagnation or depopulation.

Adolphe Landry said the government should respond by giving strong incentives for parents to have more children, such as family allowances and child care.

Adolphe Landry argued that a worldwide shift in the relative size of populations of countries would change the balance of power and threaten the position of France.

Adolphe Landry thought in the final stage there was a real possibility of depopulation.

Adolphe Landry's theories were precursors of the theory of "demographic transition" that developed after World War II.