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| Adrien Marquet, from Jaurès to Pétain |
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| During 50 years, Adrien Marquet was away from the Bordeaux history, though he had been elected socialist Mayor of the town in 1925 and left there a strong impress until 1944. Excluded from the SFIO before the arrival of the Front Populaire, he became in 1940 and for some months, home Secretary in Petain’s government in Vichy. He was then quite close to the circles of ultra-collaborationists in Paris. During the raids and execution of hostages in Bordeaux, he had no reaction about it. After the liberation, he was arrested and judged in 1947-48. He was ineligible, but however, intended to come back in politics and briefly weakened Jacques Chaban Delmas whose arrival in Bordeaux had allowed to leave behind the Occupation time. Marquet died in 1955 after he felt faint at the stand of a meeting. In the literal and figurative sense, he was buried and his souvenir re-appeared only in the 2000’s owing to historians’ searches. |
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