32 Facts About Maxime Blocq-Mascart

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was a French banker, economist and lobbyist who became a leader of the French Resistance during World War II.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart headed the conservative Organisation civile et militaire in the later part of the war.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart supported eugenic approaches to revive the falling birthrate.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was a Conseller d'Etat from 1951 to 1962.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was born in Paris on 17 November 1894 to an old banking family from Lorraine.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was orphaned when a child, and was adopted by his uncle, a marine officer.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart worked in various banks and industrial companies, worked for the Paris Chamber of Commerce and then was head economist for a Paris-based industrial group.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was a founder of the Service Social des Travailleurs Intellectuels.

On 30 October 1939 Maxime Blocq-Mascart was assigned to the Mareil-sur-Mauldre chemical works.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart returned to Paris and formed a resistance unit with his friends from the CTI.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was made head of the OCM civil office and a member of the OCM executive.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart supported giving the OCM a political program and assisted with a project for constitutional and administrative reform that recommended a presidential system.

In 1941 Maxime Blocq-Mascart made contact with Jean Cavailles of Liberation-Nord and with the clandestine Communist Party.

In 1942 Maxime Blocq-Mascart published a 50-page discussion of the "problem of minorities" in the OCM Cahiers.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart identified the Jews as a group that caused "ongoing controversies".

Maxime Blocq-Mascart concluded that members of national minorities or non-Christian background should be banned from various occupations and places of residence unless they could prove they had been assimilated for several generations.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart did not mention recent legislation against the Jews by the Vichy or Nazi regimes.

On 28 August 1943 Maxime Blocq-Mascart went underground to avoid the Gestapo.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was vice-president of the OCM until Alfred Touny was arrested in February 1944, then headed the OCM until the Liberation of France.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was a delegate to the Algiers Provisional Consultative Assembly.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart proposed that the provisional government issue a provisional constitution at once, with later revisions to be enacted by plebiscite or by an elected body.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart became vice-president of the Service Social des Travailleurs Intellectuels.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart criticized the French Third Republic from a right-wing corporatist viewpoint.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was one of the founders of the OCM organ Parisien Libere, which he directed until 1947.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was president of the National Federation of support centers for internees and political prisoners, then of Entr'aide francaise.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was active in supporting the families of deportees.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was a co-founder of the National Confederation of volunteer fighters of the Resistance.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart joined de Gaulle's Haut Comite Consultatif de la Population et de la Famille in 1945.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart supported eugenics as a way to address the low birth rate in post-war France, which he blamed on the casual view being taken of town hall marriages.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart thought that couples should be trained before being married, and the examiner should be able to require a couple to undertake "additional research" if he thought they were unprepared for marriage.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart was opposed to the family vote, but was generally overruled on this by the right-wing majority.

Maxime Blocq-Mascart did not support de Gaulle's policy on Algeria.