12 Facts About Charles Trochu

Charles Trochu was a French businessman, architect and right-wing politician.

Charles Trochu was Secretary General of the National Front and president of the Municipal Council of Paris.

Charles Trochu was born in Chile in 1898 of a Breton father and a Basque mother.

Charles Trochu was a descendant of the Napoleonic General Jean Baptiste Kleber.

Charles Trochu's grandfather was General Louis Jules Trochu, who had been President of the Government of National Defense during the Franco-Prussian War.

Charles Trochu was president of the National Association of Returned Officers, a veterans' organization.

In 1938, Charles Trochu attacked the pacifists and anti-militarists such as Jean Zay and Leon Blum who refuse to take the rearmament of Germany seriously.

Charles Trochu was taken prisoner, but was released after a short captivity.

On 3 October 1941 Charles Trochu was named president of the new assembly, before the law officially came into effect.

Taittinger said later that Charles Trochu combined the most stunning imagination with the most rigorous punctuality, and that the Municipal Council of Paris owed much to him.

Charles Trochu managed to leave France, and arrived in allied-occupied Algiers on 12 January 1944.

Charles Trochu was dropped from the council on 10 June 1944, shortly before the liberation of Paris.