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Pierre Laval

1883 - 1945

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Pierre Jean Marie Laval (French: [pjɛʁ laval]; 28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician and convicted Nazi collaborator. He served as Prime Minister of France three times: 1931–1932 and 1935–1936 during the Third Republic, and 1942–1944 during Vichy France. After the war, Laval was tried as a Nazi collaborator and executed for treason. A socialist early in his life, Laval became a lawyer in 1909 and was famous for his defence of strikers, trade unionists and leftists from government prosecution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Laval is the 1,265th most popular politician (down from 1,077th in 2019), the 424th most popular biography from France (down from 397th in 2019) and the 106th most popular French Politician.

Pierre Laval was most famous for his involvement in the Vichy government during World War II.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pierre Laval ranks 1,265 out of 19,576. Before him are Margaret of Parma, Peter III of Aragon, Sarah Palin, Grigory Potemkin, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, and William Henry Harrison. After him are Alexander of Greece, Bảo Đại, Lajos Kossuth, Mary of Clopas, Benjamin Disraeli, and Octavia the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Pierre Laval ranks 17. Before him are Jaroslav Hašek, Joseph Schumpeter, Lev Kamenev, Norman Haworth, Otto Heinrich Warburg, and Grigory Zinoviev. After him are José Ortega y Gasset, Morihei Ueshiba, Clement Attlee, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Edgard Varèse, and Lon Chaney. Among people deceased in 1945, Pierre Laval ranks 28. Before him are Clara Petacci, Ernst Cassirer, Pietro Mascagni, Heinrich Müller, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, and Paul Valéry. After him are Johan Huizinga, Hans Fischer, David Lloyd George, August von Mackensen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Käthe Kollwitz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Laval ranks 424 out of 6,770. Before him are Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Alfred Kastler (1902), Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), Jean Baudrillard (1929), and Louise Bourgeois (1911). After him are Francis Poulenc (1899), Fernandel (1903), Girard Desargues (1591), André Derain (1880), Jeanne Moreau (1928), and Antoine of Navarre (1518).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Pierre Laval ranks 106. Before him are Dagobert I (611), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), Louis IV of France (920), Patrice de MacMahon (1808), James I of Aragon (1208), and Jérôme Bonaparte (1784). After him are Antoine of Navarre (1518), Aristide Briand (1862), Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856), Henry of Flanders (1174), Robert I of France (860), and Paul Barras (1755).

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