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Albert Lebrun (
August 29,
1871 –
March 6,
1950) was a
French politician,
President of France from
1932 to
1940, and as such was the last president of the
Third Republic. He was a member of the
center-right Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD).
Born to a farming family in
Mercy-le-Haut, he attended the
École Polytechnique and the
École des Mines, graduating from both at the top of his class. He then became a mining engineer in
Vesoul and
Nancy, but left that profession at the age of 29 to enter politics.
Lebrun gained a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in 1900 as a member of the Left Republican Party, later serving on the cabinet as Minister for the Colonies from 1912-1914, Minister of War in 1913 and Minister for Liberated Regions, 1917-1919. Joining the Democratic Alliance, he was elected to the French senate from
Meurthe-et-Moselle in 1920, and served as Vice President of the Senate from 1925 through 1929. He was president of that body from 1931-1932.
Lebrun was elected president of France following the assassination of president
Paul Doumer by
Pavel Gurgulov on
May 6, 1932. Re-elected in 1939, largely because of his record of accommodating all political sides, he exercised little power as president. On July 10, 1940, Lebrun was replaced by
Philippe Pétain (although Lebrun never officially resigned) as head of state by a
vote of the parliament.
He then fled to
Vizille (Isère) on July 15, but was captured on August 27, 1943 when the Germans moved into the region and was sent into captivity at the Itter Castle in the
Tyrol. On October 10, 1943 he was allowed to return to Vizelle due to poor health, but was kept under constant surveillance.
On August 9, 1944, when the Allies restored the French government, Lebrun met with
Charles de Gaulle and acknowledged the General's leadership, saying that he hadn't formally resigned as president because the dissolution of the National Assembly had left nobody to accept his resignation.
After the war, Lebrun lived in retirement. He died of pneumonia in
Paris after a protracted illness.
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