1. Marc Emile Rucart was a French journalist and Radical politician who was a deputy from 1928 to 1942.
34 Facts About Marc Rucart
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Marc Rucart alternated between the posts of Minister of Justice and Minister of Health from 1936 to 1940.
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Marc Rucart was anti-racist, and after the initial defeat of France in World War II he did not support the Vichy government, but participated in the National Council of the Resistance and then in the first Provisional Consultative Assembly.
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Marc Emile Rucart was born on 24 July 1893 in Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne.
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Marc Rucart moved to Paris where he contributed to the Le Radical, La Lanterne and Progres civique.
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In 1928 Marc Rucart ran for election as deputy in the Epinal constituency as candidate of the Radical Socialist party, and was elected in the first round.
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Marc Rucart was elected as deputy in the first round in 1932 and 1936.
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Marc Rucart was rapporteur of the inquiry into the Oustric Affair and general rapporteur of the inquiry into the 6 February 1934 crisis.
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Marc Rucart edited the report on the official investigation into the 6 February 1934 events, published by the Chamber on 17 May 1939.
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Marc Rucart helped defend the rights of Vietnamese who believed in Caodaism.
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Marc Rucart appointed was Minister of Justice from 4 June 1936 to 21 June 1937 in the 1st cabinet of Leon Blum.
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Marc Rucart helped accelerate the process of naturalizing immigrants from Eastern Europe and Germany.
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Marc Rucart worked with Roger Salengro, Minister of the Interior, and Jean Lebas, Minister of Labor, to help refugees from Nazi Germany who had found their way into France.
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Marc Rucart said this was "intolerable" given the low birthrate in France and the increasing vulnerability to attack.
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Marc Rucart obtained funding for additional staff to process the applications.
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Marc Rucart wrote in a circular to prefects that they should remind the professional associations that they should only be concerned with reviewing professional qualifications.
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Marc Rucart replaced the popular and energetic Henri Sellier as Minister of Health when the Blum cabinet resigned in June 1937.
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Marc Rucart was again Minister of Health from 10 April 1938 to 20 March 1940 in the 3rd cabinet of Edouard Daladier.
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In February 1938 Marc Rucart stated that the Chautemps government favored greater efforts to encourage births, but its view was that creating prosperity was the best way to increase the birthrate.
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In October 1937 Marc Rucart created the Higher Council for the Protection of Children, with the mandate of coordinating public and private services, the different government agencies and the League of Nations commissions.
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Marc Rucart toured the border with Albert Sarraut, the Minister of Interior.
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Marc Rucart removed obstacles to women progressing from deputy inspectors to full inspecteurs in public assistance services.
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Marc Rucart abstained from the vote to give Petain full powers on 10 July 1940.
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Marc Rucart created a first cell of the French Resistance in Paris.
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Marc Rucart was released for lack of evidence, and formed the Patriam Recuperare group.
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Marc Rucart made his way to London and then to Algiers, where in November 1943 he became a member of the provisional Consultative Assembly.
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Marc Rucart was among the traditionalists who felt that it was imperative to maintain the rights of parliament, but this group did not have the weight to override the Gaullists, who did not want to impose and handicaps on General Charles de Gaulle as leader of Free France.
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Marc Rucart chaired the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Consultative Assembly.
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Marc Rucart was then president of the Radical Socialist party until the Liberation of France.
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Marc Rucart had significant stakes in several French trading companies in French West Africa in the late 1940s.
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Marc Rucart was elected Councilor of the Republic for Cote-d'Ivoire in the first round of votes on 13 January 1947 on the list of the Rally of Left Republicans.
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Marc Rucart became president of the committee on Overseas France.
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Marc Rucart was elected to the Senate for the newly formed constituency of French Upper Volta on 14 November 1948.
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Marc Rucart was president of the professional union of editors in chief, and an honorary member of the central committee of the Human Rights League.