19 Facts About Georges Bidault

Georges Bidault apparently joined the Organisation armee secrete; however he always denied his involvement.

Georges Bidault studied in the Sorbonne and became a college history teacher.

Georges Bidault had a column in the paper and, among other things, protested against the Munich Agreement in 1938.

Georges Bidault was captured during the Fall of France and was imprisoned briefly.

Georges Bidault participated in the forming of the Conseil National de la Resistance and, after the Gestapo captured Moulin, he became its new president.

Georges Bidault was the initiator of the society Popular Republican Movement.

Georges Bidault was chief of the French delegation to the San Francisco Conference, which established the UN, from April to June 1945.

On 4 January 1946, Georges Bidault married Suzanne Borel, the first French woman to be employed as a diplomat.

In social policy, Georges Bidault's government was notable for passing important pension and workman's compensation laws.

Georges Bidault served various French governments, first as foreign minister for Paul Ramadier and Robert Schuman.

Georges Bidault had recently been to Moscow and was disturbed by the Soviet regime; he believed an agreement with Stalin was impossible.

In 1953 Georges Bidault became a presidential candidate but withdrew after the second round.

Georges Bidault was foreign minister during the siege of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu from March to May 1954.

Georges Bidault protested to the Red Cross that the Viet Minh were shooting at clearly marked French medical evacuation flights, killing some of the evacuees.

Georges Bidault stated that John Foster Dulles offered France two atomic bombs in 1954.

Georges Bidault endorsed De Gaulle's presidency after the beginning of the Algerian War of Independence.

In 1961 Georges Bidault became President of the Executive Council of the society Rally for French Algeria and opposed De Gaulle's policy of Algerian independence.

Georges Bidault established his own National Resistance Council within the far-right paramilitary organization OAS.

Georges Bidault died of a stroke in Cambo-les-Bains in January 1983.