Léon Bérard

Léon Bérard ( born January 6, 1876 in Sauveterre -de- Béarn, † February 24, 1960 in Paris), lawyer and writer, was a conservative French politician of the Third French Republic.

After studying law in Paris Berard doctorate in 1900 and became a lawyer. From 1904 to 1908 he was mayor of his hometown. In 1907 he was elected to the General Council for the canton of Sauveterre and kept there until 1940 one seat in 1910, he joined successfully in the elections to the French Chamber of Deputies and was a member of various Republican factions.

Under the government of Georges Clemenceau, he led 27 November 1919 to the end of the period of government on 18 January 1920, the Ministry of Education. He was appointed on January 16, 1921 again to the education minister and retained the office until March 29, 1924. 1927 he was elected to the Senate for the department of Pyrénées- Atlantiques, in which he remained until 1940. Of 27 March 1931 to 20 February 1932 to June 7, 1935 to January 24, 1936 he was again member of the government, as the director of the Department of Justice under four different governments Pierre Laval.

On 10 July 1940 he voted for the authorization Pétain to create a new constitution and was appointed in October 1940 as ambassador to the Holy See. He returned in 1946 to France, but took no more part in political life and worked as a writer, lawyer and at the Académie française, in which he recorded in 1934.

After Léon Bérard Léon Bérard, the Centre is named, a cancer research center in Lyon.

Works

• Pour la classique de l' enseignement secondaire réforme (1923 )
• Au service de la pensée française (1925 )