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André Léon Blum (French: [ɑ̃dʁe leɔ̃ blum]; 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France.As a Jew, he was heavily influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 19th century. He was a disciple of socialist leader Jean Jaurès; after Jaurès' assassination in 1914, he became his successor.. Despite Blum's relatively short tenures, his time in office was very influential: as Prime Minister in the left-wing Popular Front ...
Léon Blum was the first Socialist (and the first Jewish) premier of France, presiding over the Popular Front coalition government in 1936–37. Blum was born into an Alsatian Jewish family. Educated at the École Normale Supérieure, he proceeded to study law at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1894 with
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Léon Blum . Léon Blum, (born April 9, 1872, Paris, France—died March 30, 1950, Jouy-en-Josas), French politician and writer. He made a name as a brilliant literary and drama critic, then entered politics in the French Socialist Party. As a member of the Chamber of Deputies (1919–28 ...
Léon Blum [l e ɔ̃ ˈ b l u m] [b], né le 9 avril 1872 à Paris 2 e et mort le 30 mars 1950 à Jouy-en-Josas, est un homme d'État français.Figure du socialisme, il est président du Conseil de juin 1936 à juin 1937 et de mars à avril 1938, puis président du Gouvernement provisoire de la République française de décembre 1946 à janvier 1947.. Juriste, membre du Conseil d'État ainsi que critique littéraire et écrivain, il devient un dirigeant de la Section française de l ...
May 23, 2018 · The French statesman Léon Blum (1872-1950) was the first Socialist, as well as the first Jewish, premier of France. In 1936 the government he headed enacted the most extensive program of social reforms in French history. Léon Blum was born in Paris on April 9, 1872, into a wealthy family of Alsatian textile merchants.
Aug 13, 2015 · by Pierre Birnbaum, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer. Yale University Press, 218 pp., $25.00. Léon Blum, circa 1894. When Léon Blum became president of the Council of Ministers of France—in effect, prime minister—on June 6, 1936, a world was turned on its head. He was the first socialist ever to occupy that position in ...
Oct 24, 2015 · By Birnbaum referred to as ‘the heir of Jaurès’, Léon Blum fervently came to believe in the ideals of the French republic and opted for a ‘republican (non-communist) socialism’, a position that epitomized the permanent schism in the French socialist movement. We might question the vailidity of Birnbaum’s use of the term ‘heir’ in this case. Whereas Jaurès was a prominent, highly respected socialist, Blum’s position was generally more fragile and controversial. ...
Sep 26, 2016 · Assessing Léon Blum. In French Popular Front leader Léon Blum we find both the grandeur and misery of interwar social democracy. Eighty years ago, as the Popular Front, led by the Socialist Party, was voted into power in France, workers across the country decided to hasten its promised reforms, striking and occupying factories to ensure that ...
LÉON BLUM 37 curable parliamentary habit of over-throwing governments and making a consistent policy impossible. Although his Social policies had probably saved France from crippling internal dis-order, his ministry ended in frustra-tion and bitterness. Blum served in subordinate capacities in later cabi-nets, and in 1938 he attempted to form a government in which both the Com-
The subject is Léon Blum, and all the major episodes in Blum’s life are treated. He was born into a middle-class Jewish family in 1872. As a young man, he was swept up by the pro-Dreyfus cause, an involvement that brought him into the orbit of the great socialist orator, Jean Jaurès. Blum’s engagement in left-wing politics deepened in the aftermath of the Great War. France’s socialist party, the Section Française de l’Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO), split in 1920 at the Congress ...
