Émile Roche
French politician
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Émile Roche (Estaires, 24 September 1893 – 1990), was a French economist, radical politician and journalist.
He was born the son of a grocer, who entered politics after the First World War.[1][2][3] He was best known as a supporter of the politician Joseph Caillaux from 1927 during the 1930s through the newspaper he founded La République.[4] Under the German Occupation, Émile Roche wrote for the collaborationist newspaper Les Nouveaux Temps where he criticised the parties of the 1930s and supported the single party.[5][6][7][8] After the Liberation he intervened on behalf of the former German ambassador to Vichy, Otto Abetz in 1950.[9] From 1954 to 1974 he was the Président of the French Conseil économique.[10] He was also well known as a distinguished collector of art.