Marcel Déat
Marcel Déat | |
|---|---|
Déat in 1932 | |
| Minister of Air | |
| In office 24 January 1936 – 4 June 1936 | |
| Prime Minister | Albert Sarraut |
| Preceded by | Victor Denain |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Cot |
| Member of the French Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 1939 – 10 July 1940 | |
| Constituency | Charente |
| In office 9 May 1932 – 3 May 1936 | |
| Constituency | Seine |
| In office 1926 – 29 April 1928 | |
| Constituency | Marne |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 March 1894 Guérigny, France |
| Died | 5 January 1955 (aged 60) Turin, Italy |
| Political party | French Section of the Workers' International (1914–1933) Socialist Party of France (1933–1935) Socialist Republican Union (1935–1940) National Popular Rally (1941–1944) |
| Education | École Normale Supérieure |
| Profession | Journalist, writer |
Marcel Déat (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl dea]; 7 March 1894 – 5 January 1955) was a French politician. Initially a socialist and a member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), he led a breakaway group of right-wing Neosocialists out of the SFIO in 1933. During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, he founded the collaborationist National Popular Rally (RNP). In 1944, he became Minister of Labour and National Solidarity in Pierre Laval's government in Vichy, before escaping to the Sigmaringen enclave along with Vichy officials after the Allied landings in Normandy. Condemned in absentia for collaborationism, he died while still in hiding in Italy.