Eugène Frot
Eugène Frot | |
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Frot in 1929 | |
| Minister of Merchant Marine | |
| In office 31 January 1933 – 24 October 1933 | |
| Preceded by | Léon Meyer |
| Succeeded by | Jacques Stern |
| Minister of Labor and Social Assurance | |
| In office 26 October 1933 – 23 November 1933 | |
| Preceded by | François Albert |
| Succeeded by | Lucien Lamoureux |
| Minister of Merchant Marine | |
| In office 26 November 1933 – 9 January 1934 | |
| Preceded by | Jacques Stern |
| Succeeded by | William Bertrand |
| Minister of Labor and Social Assurance | |
| In office 9 January 1934 – 27 January 1934 | |
| Preceded by | Lucien Lamoureux |
| Succeeded by | Jean Valadier |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 30 January 1934 – 7 February 1934 | |
| Preceded by | Camille Chautemps |
| Succeeded by | Albert Sarraut |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 October 1893 Montargis, Loiret, France |
| Died | 10 April 1983 (aged 99) Château-Landon, Seine-et-Marne, France |
Eugène Frot (2 October 1893 – 10 April 1983) was a French politician who was Minister of Merchant Marine (twice), Minister of Labor and Social Assurance (twice) and Minister of the Interior in various short-lived cabinets between December 1932 and February 1934. While he was Minister of Interior, right-wing groups organized street demonstrations in Paris on 6 February 1934 in which the police shot dead fourteen people. In the aftermath the cabinet was forced to resign. Frot supported Republican institutions, but by the late 1930s was a committed pacifist. In July 1940 he voted for the constitutional change that established the collaborationist Vichy government. As a result, he was barred from politics after the war.