1. Charles Joseph Tillon was a French metal worker, Communist, trade union leader, politician and leader of the French Resistance during World War II.
36 Facts About Charles Tillon
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Charles Tillon was a leader in a naval mutiny in 1919, and was sentenced to five years hard labor.
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Charles Tillon became active in the French Communist Party and in the trade union movement, rising to senior positions in both.
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Charles Tillon lost this position when the Communist Party was outlawed early in 1940, and went underground.
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Charles Tillon was born in Rennes in the Ille-et-Vilaine department on 3 July 1897 to a working-class family.
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Charles Tillon apprenticed in metallurgy at the Rennes vocational school until 1913, then found work as a fitter.
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Charles Tillon became a quartermaster and was one of the leaders of the mutiny aboard the Guichen, Jean Bart and France, on the Black Sea, on 26 June 1919.
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Charles Tillon was arrested in Greece, tried by a military court in Brest and sentenced to five years of hard labor, part of which he served in the Dar Bel Hamri Penitentiary in Morocco.
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Charles Tillon returned to Rennes and worked as a fitter in different factories making agricultural machinery and chemical products.
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Charles Tillon joined the French Communist Party, and was active in the Confederation generale du travail unitaire trade union movement.
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Charles Tillon organized the local metalworkers union, became secretary of the departmental union, then secretary of the regional union of unitary trade unions.
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In 1925, Charles Tillon was elected a municipal Councillor of Douarnenez.
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In 1928, Charles Tillon was made head of the regional union of Nantes unions.
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Charles Tillon entered the central committee of the party in 1932 and was made a member of the Politburo.
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On 26 May 1935, Charles Tillon was elected General Councillor of the Seine for the canton of Aubervilliers.
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Charles Tillon called for action against politicians who had fraudulently enriched themselves during their mandate.
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Charles Tillon traveled to Spain and was taken prisoner in Alicante in April 1939 with the last remaining Republican leaders.
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Charles Tillon lost his mandate in the chamber of deputies when the law of 2 January 1940 outlawed the party.
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Charles Tillon remained loyal to the party and went underground.
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Charles Tillon was one of the nine Communist deputies who avoided arrest but was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison.
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Charles Tillon reorganized the party in the southwestern departments both before and after the German occupation of France.
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Charles Tillon became the third member of the clandestine PCF secretariat, with Jacques Duclos and Benoit Frachon.
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In 1944, Charles Tillon was made temporary head of the municipality of Aubervilliers.
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Charles Tillon was named a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly, resuming the seat he had won in 1936.
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Charles Tillon was Air Minister under de Gaulle from 10 September 1944 to 21 November 1945.
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Charles Tillon was Minister of Armaments from 21 November 1945 to 20 January 1946.
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Charles Tillon remained Minister of Armaments under the governments of Felix Gouin and Georges Bidault from 23 January to 16 December 1946.
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Charles Tillon remained a loyal member of the central committee, political bureau and secretariat of the party.
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Charles Tillon was in charge of the "Fight for Peace" section.
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In 1947, Charles Tillon lost his wife, Colette with whom he had two sons, Claude and Jacques.
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On 1 September 1952, Marty was accused of factional activity, and Charles Tillon was said to represent the other half of the faction.
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Charles Tillon was accused of supporting them, a charge he denied.
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In June 1970, Charles Tillon coauthored a paper titled "It is no longer possible to remain silent" with Roger Garaudy, Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont and Jean Pronteau.
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Charles Tillon was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour.
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Charles Tillon died in 1993 in Marseille at age 95.
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Charles Tillon held the following ministerial posts during the French Fourth Republic:.