Pierre Viénot
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USR (1935-1937)
SOC (1937-1940)
Pierre Viénot | |
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.jpg) Pierre Viénot in 1936, while serving as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. | |
| Member of the French National Assembly | |
| In office 1 June 1932 – 31 May 1942 | |
| Preceded by | Firmin Leguet |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Parliamentary group | PSF-PRS (1932-1935) USR (1935-1937) SOC (1937-1940) |
| Constituency | Ardennes |
| Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
| In office June 1936 – June 1937 | |
| Prime Minister | Léon Blum |
| Succeeded by | François de Tessan |
| Ambassador of Free France to the United Kingdom | |
| In office 1943 – 20 July 1944 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 August 1897 |
| Died | 20 July 1944 (aged 46) |
| Party | PSF (1932-1935) USR (1935-1937) SFIO (1937-1944) |
| Spouse | Andrée Mayrisch |
Pierre Viénot (5 August 1897 – 20 July 1944) was a French politician and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Pierre Louis Gustave Viénot was born in Clermont, Oise. He studied at Lycée Janson-de-Sailly in Paris before enlisting in the French Army during World War I before his eighteenth birthday. He was wounded twice, in the Battle of the Somme (1916) and at Villers-Cotterêts (1918).
After the war, he pursued law studies and worked for Hubert Lyautey, Resident-General of French Morocco. He was influenced by Lyautey's liberal attitudes toward Moroccan governance and later promoted Franco-German relations by founding the Franco-German Committee for Information and Documentation.[1] He married Andrée Viénot, daughter of Luxembourg businessman and patron of the Franco-German committee Émile Mayrisch, in 1929.
Political career
Viénot was elected as a deputy in 1932 representing Rocroi, Ardennes, with the French Socialist Party (PSF). He was re-elected in 1936 and served as under-secretary of state for foreign affairs in the Léon Blum government. He negotiated independence treaties for Lebanon and Syria in 1936, though these were not ratified due to opposition in the French Senate.
In 1938, he opposed the Munich Agreement and co-founded the socialist group "Agir" alongside Pierre Brossolette and Daniel Mayer, advocating resistance against Nazi Germany.