Jean Cristofol

Jean Cristofol ( born March 24, 1901 in Spain, † November 21, 1957 in Villejuif ) was a French communist politician. From 1936 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1957 he was a member of the National Assembly.

Cristofol was from 1936 to 1940 for the first time Member of Parliament. Because of the German occupation, he was arrested as a Communist in April 1940. In 1941 he was transferred to Algiers, where he was liberated in February 1943. In Algeria, he worked on the reconstruction of the Communist Party. Immediately after the liberation Cristofol was appointed to the City Council of Marseille. This office he retained in the municipal elections in 1945, from which followed a coalition between the Socialists and the Communists to Gaston Defferre to François Billoux. From 1946 to 1947 he was briefly mayor of the city, but was shortly afterwards succeeded by Michel Carlini. At the same time he succeeded in 1946, the re- entry into the National Assembly. Cristofol retained his office until he died on November 21, 1957 in Villejuif, near Paris, of lung cancer.