Jacques Baumel

Jacques Baumel was a French politician. He was born on 6 March 1918 in Marseille and died 17 February 2006 in Rueil-Malmaison. He was a French resistance fighter (under the aliases 'Saint-Just' ',' 'Berneix' or 'Rossini'), deputy in the National Assembly, a Senator, an important leader of the Gaullist movement, and Secretary of State and mayor of Rueil-Malmaison.

Resistance figher

After medical studies in France, Jacques Baumel took part in the French Resistance and directed the Combat resistance group in Marseille . In 1943, he was Secretary General of the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (United movements of the Resistance) (MUR). In 1945 helped found the Union démocratique et socialiste de la Résistance (UDSR). He served on the Provisional Consultative Assembly. In 1945, he was elected Deputy of the National Assembly of Moselle to the First National Constituent Assembly, was elected in Creuse to the Second Assembly but defeated in the elections to the National Assembly of 1946. He chaired the parliamentary group of the UDSR. He participated in the development of Rassemblement du peuple français (Rally of the French People) (RPF) from its founding in 1947.

Record of political longevity

As a senator from 1959 to 1967, he was one of the assistant secretaries general of the Union for the New Republic (UNR). He went to the United States and examined the campaign of John F. Kennedy in 1960. He became the General Secretariat of the Gaullist movement December 7, 1962 after the success of the Union for the New Republic in November, a position he held until January 19, 1968, when he was replaced by Robert Poujade. He was elected during the new elections to the National Assembly as soon as 1967 and held a seat in Palais Bourbon until 2002. He was a member of the Union for the New Republic, of the Union for the Defence of the Republic (UDR) and Rally for the Republic (RPR).

Mayor for 33 years

Jacques Baumel was Secretary of State to the Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas 20 June 1969 to {{Date|5 July 1972} }. He was mayor of Rueil-Malmaison, "a provincial town outside Paris" to use his words, from 1971 to 2004, at the origin of Rueil 2000 (now Rueil-sur-Seine). He practiced an active policy of sister cities with many foreign cities (19 in all). His municipal policy promoted the establishment of head offices of important business, both French and foreign. The preschool system is particularly strong in his city. A library opened in 2002 that bears his name.

Expert on parliamentary diplomacy

He chaired the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine for nine years starting in 1970 (from 1970 to 1973 and from 1976 to 1982). Internationally, he represented the French Parliament to Assembly of the Western European Union in Assembly of the Western European Union and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) where he opposed all forms of totalitarianism.

He is buried in the village cemetery of Fourneville in Calvados. His wife, Louise Bachelot, was born September 11, 1924, and died November 14, 2013.

Publications

• Baumel, Jacques (1985). Une certaine idée de la France [A certain idea of France] (in French). éditions Vaugirard. 
• Baumel, Jacques (1994). La France et sa Défense [France and Her Defence] (in French). éditions des Forges. 
• Baumel, Jacques (1999). Résister, Histoire secrète des années d'occupation [Resistance Fighter, Secret History of the years of occupation] (in French). éditions Albin Michel. ISBN 978-2226108661. 
• Baumel, Jacques (2001). De Gaulle, l'exil intérieur [De Gaulle, the Internal Exile] (in French). éditions Albin Michel. ISBN 978-2226125835. 
• Baumel, Jacques. La Liberté guidait nos pas [Liberty Guided our Steps] (in French). Plon. ISBN 978-2259199353. 
• Baumel, Jacques; Delpla, François (2004). La Libération de la France [The Liberation of France] (in French). édition l'Archipel. ISBN 978-2841874217. 
• Baumel, Jacques; Delpla, François (2006). Un tragique malentendu. De Gaulle et l'Algérie [A Tragic Misunderstanding. De Gaulle and Algeria] (in French). ISBN 978-2259204125. 

Jacques Baumel appeared as a witness in the television documentary La traversée du désert (Crossing the Desert) of Patrick Pesnot in 2005.

Achievements

• Officer of the Legion of Honour
• Compagnon de la Libération (Companion of the Liberation)
• Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (Cross of War 1939-1945)
• French Resistance Medal

External links

• Sa fiche biographique sur le site de l'Assemblée nationale
• Sa fiche sur le site du Sénat