Gaston Monmousseau
Gaston Monmousseau | |
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Monmousseau speaking in Birkelunden, Oslo, Norway (1938) | |
| Born | 17 January 1883 Luynes, Indre-et-Loire, France |
| Died | 11 July 1960 (aged 77) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Trade union leader and politician |
| Known for | Secretary-general of the CGTU |
Gaston René Léon Monmousseau (17 January 1883 – 11 July 1960) was a French railway worker, trade union leader, politician and author, from a rural working-class background. He became an anarcho-syndicalist, then a communist, and played a leading role in the French Communist Party and in the national trade union movement both before and after World War II (1939–45).