Blum Born April 9, 1872 in Paris, Leon Blum was sent to the Lycée Henri IV, where he met André Gide quickly, with whom he founded a journal of poetry ... hundred years later, he would have done with tuning Steevy and walls tagged with M Pokora, farewell and paid holidays. But we are in 1891. Blum gets one after his degree in Letters and his law degree, and is received as an auditor of the State Council when he was 23 years while writing some book reviews in journals Paris. The policy does it really falls over with the beginning of the Dreyfus affair in 1894, just before he met Jean Jaures, with whom he founded the newspaper L'Humanité in 1904.
In August 1914, Blum became Chief of Staff of the Socialist Marcel Sembat, a very good dancer, then became deputy for the Seine in 1919 and chairman of the Socialist parliamentary group the following year, at a time when the we still did not associate socialism with a left caviar led to an iron hand in a glove Mobalpa by the Virgin of Poitou; The following year, he refused to join the SFIO communists of the Third International and fucked in the legislative by the rise of the extreme right. So, in 1934, he approaches the PCF Thorez and sign agreements of the Popular Front, which allows them to win the general election of 1936 and sees Leon Blum became President of the Board, the equivalent of our current president . It's time all revolutions: Blum invites women in government, then they do not vote. And above all, paid holidays, work week to forty hours, compulsory schooling to 14 years, the institution of collective bargaining and the right last two football games a week.
But soon, everything is spoiled. Vilified by the extreme right and his entire government (Roger Salengro, his interior minister, will even commit suicide), and hit hard by anti-Semitism very fashionable at the time when the mustache was Führer Blum is picked up and resigned in 1937. Very quickly, it's war. Blum is one of the 80 MPs who voted against the granting of full powers to Marshal Petain, and refuses to flee the U.S. despite the invitation of Roosevelt. Order by Vichy in September 1940 he was interned at the castle of Chazeron then delivered by Pierre Laval to the Nazis and deported to Buchenwald in March 1943, in a charming forest cottage 100 yards from the camp, as everyone knows, so rampant these little details of history that in fact never really existed, let us agree. His brother René Blum, founder of the Ballet de l'Opera de Monte Carlo, it will end in soap at Auschwitz, while Blum was taken with his wife in the Italian Tyrol at the time the war is nearing its end. He runs for a month last provisional government of France, refused the post of Minister that he proposes and De Gaulle withdrew in 1947 at his home in Jouy-en-Josas (not to be confused with Enjoy by Josette Belgian pornographic film of 1948) and died March 30, 1950 of a heart attack at the age 77.
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