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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.
Léon Blum (born April 9, 1872, Paris—died March 30, 1950, Jouy-en-Josas, France) was the first Socialist (and the first Jewish) premier of France, presiding over the Popular Front coalition government in 1936–37.
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 ...
May 23, 2018 · BLUM, LÉON (1872–1950), statesman; the first Jew and the first socialist to become premier of France. Son of a wealthy Alsatian merchant, Blum graduated with the highest honors in law at the Sorbonne. At the age of 22, he was recognized as a poet and writer.
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.
was Léon Blum, the wise and able leader of the Socialist Party. Blum was born in 1872 in the Halles quarter of Paris, the second son of a middle class Jewish family. In 1890 he entered the École normale supérieure, the training ground of the French in-telligentsia, taking his degree in phi-losophy. He took a law degree at the
Sep 26, 2016 · In French Popular Front leader Léon Blum we find both the grandeur and misery of interwar social democracy.
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.
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.
André Léon Blum (French: [ɑ̃ d ʁ e l e ɔ̃ b l u m]; 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister. References
