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Paul Bacon (politician)

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Paul Bacon
Bacon in 1950
Member of the National Assembly of France
In office
1945–1958
Personal details
Born(1907-11-01)1 November 1907
Paris, France
Died6 December 1999(1999-12-06) (aged 92)
Gimont, France
Political partyMRP

Paul Bacon (1 November 1907 – 6 December 1999) was a French politician.[1]

Biography

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Bacon was born in Paris. During World War II, he was active in the French Resistance, specifically with the MLN.[2] He was a member of Georges Bidault's National Liberation Movement,[3] and distributed a manifesto about trade unionism in December 1940. Bacon was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943.

After the war, Bacon continued his political career. A member of the Christian Democratic Popular Republican Movement (MRP), he was Member of the two National Constituent Assemblies (1945–46) and then of the National Assembly from 1946 to 1958 representing the Seine Department.[4][5] He was Secretary of state in the prime minister's office in 1959-1960, Minister of Labour and Social security (with some interruptions during the cabinets of Pinay and of Mendès France) from 1950 to 1956 and again in 1957-1959.[6]

He was Minister of Labour in De Gaulle, Debré and Pompidou governments from 1958 to 1962. With the other MRP ministers, he resigned in protest after De Gaulle's press conference about European integration in May 1962.[7] He sat in the Economic and Social Council from 1962 to 1964. Bacon was also a municipal councillor at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.

A trade unionist and an adept of social harmony, Paul Bacon was one of the major figures who built French social security and was the father of the Interprofessional Guaranteed Minimum Wage (salaire minimum interprofessionnel garanti, or SMIG).

Books

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Bacon wrote several books:

  • La Naissance de la classe ouvrière
  • Vers la réforme de l'entreprise capitaliste
  • Vers la démocratie économique et sociale

References

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  1. ^ Profile, pace.coe.int. Accessed 9 November 2022.
  2. ^ Mayeur, Jean Marie; Milza, Pierre (1993). Le MRP et la construction européenne: actes du colloque organisée les 18 et 19 janvier 1990 au Sénat par le Centre d'histoire de l'Europe du vingtième siècle et l'Amicale du MRP (in French). Editions Complexe. p. 319. ISBN 978-2-87027-488-0. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  3. ^ Vandenbussche, Robert (2003). L'engagement dans la Résistance: France du Nord, Belgique (in French). Centre d'histoire de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest. p. 114. ISBN 978-2-905637-38-3. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  4. ^ Bulletin de la Société archéologique, historique, littéraire & scientifique du Gers (in French). Société archéologique, historique, littéraire et scientifique du Gers. 2003. p. 380. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Paul, Jean Bacon". www2.assemblee-nationale.fr. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  6. ^ Yvert, Benoît (1 January 1990). Dictionnaire des ministres de 1789 à 1989 (in French). FeniXX. p. 757. ISBN 978-2-262-05933-0. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  7. ^ Lamberts, Emiel (1997). Christian Democracy in the European Union, 1945/1995: Proceedings of the Leuven Colloquium, 15-18 November 1995. Leuven University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-90-6186-808-8. Retrieved 6 December 2024.