Laurent Casanova
Laurent Casanova ( born October 9, 1906 in Souq Ahras, Algeria, † March 20, 1972 in Paris) was a Resistance fighter and minister of France.
Life
Casanova came from a Corsican family. He studied law in Paris and became secretary of the Parti Communiste a group français ( PCF). In 1928, he supported the underground apparatus of the PCF. In 1933 he married the Corsican Ella Vincent Perini, the Union of young French women ( Union des Jeunes Filles de France ), a girl organization of the PCF founded in 1936. He himself was in 1936 assistant to the PCF -General Maurice Thorez.
Shortly after he was drafted into the French army in 1939, he was taken by the Daladier regime in detention. He managed to escape and regain contact with the Communist underground organization. After the occupation of France, he participated in the resistance along with Pierre Villon. For a time he was also in contact with Pablo Picasso and Louis Aragon.
The head of the Francs- Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) Charles Tillon appointed in 1944 Casanova to the FTP representative in the Assemblée Consultative provisoire in Algiers. In August 1944, he was elected to the Department of Seine -et -Marne in the Constituent National Assembly, whose deputy he remained from 1946 to 1958 in the gesamzen time of the Fourth Republic.
As of July 1945, Casanova was a member of the Central Committee of the PCF. Early in 1946 he was in the cabinet of Félix Gouin the Ministre des Anciens et des Victimes combattants de la guerre and remained so in the first cabinet of Georges Bidault. In the 1950s, he was a representative of the PCF in the Council of the Mouvement de la Paix, the French section of the Mouvement mondial des partisans de la paix. In 1960 he was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize. In May 1961, conflicts arose within the leadership of the PCF to the evaluation of the supported Casanova new course in the Soviet Union, which meant that he was expelled along with Marcel Servin and Maurice Kriegel - Valrimont from the party leadership.
Works
- Le Parti Communiste, les intellectuels et la Nation.