Paul Reynaud

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Paul Reynaud was a French politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of France at the start of World War II and was a leading opponent of Nazi Germany.

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instanceOf French politician
human
statesman
advocatedFor Franco-British union proposal of June 1940
continued resistance against Nazi Germany in 1940
burialPlace Cimetière de Passy, Paris
surface form: Passy Cemetery, Paris
causeOfDeath natural causes
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1878-10-15
dateOfDeath 1966-09-21
describedBySource historical accounts of the French Third Republic
detainedIn Buchenwald
surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Dachau
surface form: Dachau concentration camp

Itter Castle
educatedAt Collège Stanislas de Paris
Faculty of Law of Paris
endTime 1940-06-16 (as Prime Minister of France)
hasGender male
headOfGovernmentOf French Third Republic
honorificTitle President of the Council (Président du Conseil)
imprisonedBy Nazi Germany
French State (Vichy regime)
surface form: Vichy France authorities
languageSpoken French
memberOf French Resistance
surface form: French Resistance (political opposition milieu)
memberOfPoliticalParty Democratic Republican Alliance
surface form: Alliance démocratique

Rally of the French People
notableFor leading French opposition to Nazi Germany before World War II
role in the fall of France in 1940
notableWork In the Thick of the Fight, 1930–1945 (memoirs)
occupation lawyer
opponentOf Adolf Hitler
Nazi Germany
participantIn Battle of France
surface form: Fall of France

World War II
placeOfBirth Barcelonnette
surface form: Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
placeOfDeath Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
positionHeld Deputy in the French Chamber of Deputies
Member of the French National Assembly
Minister of Finance of France
Minister of Justice of France
Prime Minister of France
religion Roman Catholicism
replacedBy Philippe Pétain
replaces Édouard Daladier
spouse Élisabeth de Miribel (partner/companion, sometimes cited)
startTime 1940-03-21 (as Prime Minister of France)

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