27 Facts About Paul Bastid

Paul Raymond Marie Bastid was a French lawyer, academic and radical politician who was a national deputy from 1924 to 1942 in the French Third Republic, and from 1945 to 1951 in the French Fourth Republic.

Paul Bastid was Minister of Commerce from 1936 to 1937.

Paul Bastid was a prolific author on subjects that ranged from law and history to fiction and poetry.

Paul Raymond Marie Bastid was born on 17 May 1892 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

Paul Bastid's maternal grandfather, Paul Deves, was a former deputy, senator and Minister.

Paul Bastid attended the Ecole Normale Superieure, where he passed the agregation examinations in philosophy and law, and became a Doctor of Letters.

Paul Bastid was made a member of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and professor of the Faculty of Law of Paris.

Paul Bastid wrote for various newspapers including La Depeche de Toulouse and l'Ere nouvelle.

On 11 May 1924 Bastid was elected deputy for Cantal.

Paul Bastid was secretary of the Chamber in 1925 and 1926.

Paul Bastid was extremely active in parliament, and was particularly interested in international affairs and in constitutional issues.

Paul Bastid was a member of the French delegation to the League of Nations for seven assemblies between 1926 and 1939.

Paul Bastid chaired the Foreign Affairs committee from 1934 to 1936.

Paul Bastid was Minister of Commerce in the cabinet of Leon Blum from 4 June 1936 to 22 June 1937.

Paul Bastid's father was Jules Basdevant, a professor of public international law in Paris.

Paul Bastid had studied law and obtained the doctorat en droit in 1930.

Paul Bastid became a highly respected expert on international law.

In 1941 Paul Bastid was dismissed from his office as Councilor General by the Vichy government.

At the start of the summer of 1942 Paul Bastid circulated a document to many parliamentarians in which he asserted that Marshal Philippe Petain had violated the mandate given him on 10 July 1940, and protested against the abuses of the Vichy government.

Paul Bastid was a member of a committee of nine Radical politicians who met weekly from October 1943.

Paul Bastid was a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly from 1944 to 1945, where he was president of the committee for reform of the state.

Paul Bastid ran for Cantal on the platform of the Radical Socialist Republicans in the elections to the 1st National Constituent Assembly, but was defeated.

Paul Bastid was reelected to the National Assembly on the Rally of Left Republicans platform on 10 November 1946.

Paul Bastid failed to be reelected in 1951, and did not run for election in 1956.

Paul Bastid was made a knight of the Legion of Honor and was awarded the Resistance Medal with rosette.

Paul Bastid died on 29 October 1974 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris at the age of 82.

Paul Bastid was a prolific author on subjects that included the law, history, fiction and poetry, and contributed to many journals.