1. Max Bonnafous was a French sociologist who was Minister of Agriculture and Supplies from 1942 to 1944 in the Vichy government.
18 Facts About Max Bonnafous
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Max Bonnafous was born on 21 January 1900 in Bordeaux, Gironde.
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Max Bonnafous graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1920, studied at the French Academy in Rome, and passed the agregation in philosophy in 1924.
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Max Bonnafous joined the French Section of the Workers' International.
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Max Bonnafous made substantial contributions to the Annee sociologique, nouvelle serie, which first appeared in 1925.
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Max Bonnafous became a professor at the lycee in Constantinople.
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Max Bonnafous published Le Suicide a Constantinople: Etude statique et essai d'interpretation sociologique in 1927.
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In 1929 Max Bonnafous undertook to edit the selected works of the socialist leader Jean Jaures in about twenty volumes.
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Max Bonnafous chose to organize the material around six themes: socialism, pacifism, anti-clericalism, political battles, economic and social questions, and the world and men.
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Max Bonnafous said that afterwards he did not have the courage or the opportunity to reassemble them.
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Max Bonnafous served as cabinet secretary to government ministers in 1934 and 1938.
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Max Bonnafous was cabinet secretary to the Minister of the Interior in 1940.
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Max Bonnafous was Secretary of State for Agriculture and Supplies from 18 April 1942 to 11 September 1942 in the 2nd cabinet of Pierre Laval.
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Max Bonnafous was Minister and Secretary of State for Agriculture and Supplies from 11 September 1942 to 6 January 1944 in the same cabinet.
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Max Bonnafous tried to speed up the creation of the Peasant Corporation, which would unite rural producers in France and give them the apparatus of self-government.
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Max Bonnafous had an affair with the actress Gaby Morlay during the war, and as a result the actress was investigated for collaboration with the Nazis after the liberation.
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Later Max Bonnafous married Morlay, who continued to play important roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Max Bonnafous died at the age of 75 on 16 October 1975 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes.