Vincent Jules Auriol was a French politician who served as President of France from 1947 to 1954.
20 Facts About Vincent Auriol
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Vincent Auriol's great-grandmother, Anne Auriol, was a first cousin of English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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Vincent Auriol earned a law degree at the College de Revel in 1904 and began his career as a lawyer in Toulouse.
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In 1914, Vincent Auriol entered the Chamber of Deputies as a Socialist Deputy for Muret, a position he retained until 1942.
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Vincent Auriol served as Mayor of Muret from 3 May 1925 to 17 January 1947, and as a member of the Conseil General of Haute-Garonne from 1928 to 17 January 1947.
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In December 1920, after the breakup of the SFIO, Vincent Auriol refused to join the newly created SFIC and became one of the leaders of the new SFIO, along with Leon Blum.
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Vincent Auriol chaired the Finance Committee in the Chamber of Deputies from 1924 to 1926.
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Vincent Auriol was one of the 80 deputies who voted against the extraordinary powers given to Prime Minister Philippe Petain on 10 July 1940 that brought about the Nazi-backed Vichy government.
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Vincent Auriol represented the Socialists at the Free French Consultative Assembly.
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Vincent Auriol was a member of the Constituent Assemblies which drafted the constitution of the short-lived French Fourth Republic, and was President of the Assemblies.
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Vincent Auriol lobbied for a "third force" as an alternative to both Communism and Gaullism.
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Vincent Auriol led the French delegation to the United Nations and was France's first representative on the United Nations Security Council in 1946.
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Vincent Auriol served as a Deputy for Haute-Garonne in the National Assembly from 1946 until 31 December 1947.
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Vincent Auriol attempted to reconcile political factions within France and warm relations between France and its allies.
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Vincent Auriol was criticized for France's ailing economy and political turmoil in the postwar period, and the war in Indochina.
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Vincent Auriol became a member of the Constitutional Council of France in 1958 at the establishment of the French Fifth Republic; he resigned from the SFIO in the same year.
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Vincent Auriol unsuccessfully lobbied against the constitution in the 1958 national referendum, and resigned from his position on the Constitutional Council in 1960 to protest the growing power of Charles de Gaulle's presidency.
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On 1 January 1966, Vincent Auriol died in hospital in the 7th arrondissement of Paris and was buried at Muret, Haute-Garonne.
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On 1 June 1911, Vincent Auriol married Michelle Aucoutuier.
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Aroud seven to eight years later, the couple was blessed with a son, Paul and the aviatrix Jacqueline Vincent Auriol was his daughter-in-law.