Jean-Baptiste Lebas is the son of Felicite Delattre and Jean-Hippolyte Lebas.
10 Facts About Jean-Baptiste Lebas
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Jean-Baptiste Lebas was born at home in a humble house in Roubaix, an industrial city where his mother was a housekeeper and his father a textile worker.
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Altogether, it was observable that Jean-Baptiste Lebas had been brought up in a working class family and steeped in a left-wing milieu in his birth town.
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Jean-Baptiste Lebas entered a career as accountant for the cooperative society La Paix in 1901.
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In 1908 Lebas was elected to the municipal council of Roubaix.
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German troops invaded the city of Roubaix at the beginning of World War I Lebas refused to grant the German forces the list of inhabitants in the prime of life whom occupiers wanted for compulsory labour.
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Between the two world wars, Jean-Baptiste Lebas developed and implemented a social policy for his city aimed at constructing decent and salubrious housing and providing access to education.
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Jean-Baptiste Lebas was elected deputy for the first time in 1919 alongside Jules Guesde.
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For some undeclared reason, Jean-Baptiste Lebas did not take part to the vote on the constitutional change that established an authoritarian regime under the government of Marshal Philippe Petain.
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Jean-Baptiste Lebas died at the Sonnenburg concentration camp in 1944.