1. Pierre Marie was a French neurologist and political journalist close to the SFIO.
10 Facts About Pierre Marie
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In 1911, Marie became a member of the Academie de Medecine.
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One of Pierre Marie's earlier contributions was a description of a disorder of the pituitary gland known as acromegaly.
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Pierre Marie's analysis of the disease was an important contribution to the emerging field of endocrinology.
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Pierre Marie is credited as the first to describe pulmonary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, cleidocranial dysostosis and rhizomelic spondylosis.
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Pierre Marie was the first general secretary of the Societe Francaise de Neurologie, and with Edouard Brissaud, he was co-founder of the journal Revue neurologique.
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In 1928, Pierre Marie left the medical academy to become a political journalist, first at the physical-culturist magazine La Culture Physique, where Edmond Desbonnet served as his intellectual patron.
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Pierre Marie became increasingly involved in the SFIO in the 1930s, gaining a reputation as the Party's foremost intellectual on matters of sports, leisure, and physical culture.
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Pierre Marie is a rare figure to bridge the gap between French physical culturism and Socialism.
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Pierre Marie's collaborationism has led some historians to understand the influence of physical culture in the SFIO and the Vichy Regime as one path that led many Socialists - like Marie - to supporting Petain.