Louis Barthou
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| In office March 22, 1913 – December 9, 1913 |
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| Preceded by | Aristide Briand |
| Succeeded by | Gaston Doumergue |
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| Born | August 25, 1862 |
| Died | October 9, 1934 |
| Political party | None |
Jean Louis Barthou (August 25, 1862 – October 9, 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic.
Born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Basses-Pyrénées, he was Prime Minister of France in 1913. Barthou was an authority on Trade Union history and law.
Louis Barthou was the primary figure behind the Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance Pact, which was signed by his successor, Pierre Laval. He was serving as Foreign Minister when he was killed accidentally by a policeman reacting to the shooting of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia by Vlado Chernozemski during his visit to Marseilles. Chernozemski was thought to have assassinated both Alexander and Barthou until 1974 when a forensic examination found that the bullet that killed Barthou was an 8mm police calibre bullet and not the 7.65 mm caliber used by Chernozemski.
Barthou was wounded in the arm, severing his humeral artery, but received no treatment until it was too late. The assassination ended the career of Préfet Jouhannaud of Marseilles.
In 1957, in the Neues Deutschland ("New Germany") newspaper and then in a book and a subsequent film called Unternehmen Teutonenschwert ("Operation Teutonic Sword"), East Germany published an alleged correspondence involving a high-ranking NATO official, Hans Speidel, then an assistant to the German military attaché in Paris, with Hermann Goering, to disseminate the idea that the assassination was planned and prepared by Germans with Hitler's personal sanction on it. The theory has been disputed as propaganda and was further discredited by the 1974 ballistics determination.
[edit] Barthou's Ministry, 22 March - 9 December 1913
- Louis Barthou - President of the Council and Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
- Stéphen Pichon - Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Eugène Étienne - Minister of War
- Louis Lucien Klotz - Minister of the Interior
- Charles Dumont - Minister of Finance
- Henry Chéron - Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions
- Antony Ratier - Minister of Justice
- Pierre Baudin - Minister of Marine
- Étienne Clémentel - Minister of Agriculture
- Jean Morel - Minister of Colonies
- Joseph Thierry - Minister of Public Works
- Alfred Massé - Minister of Commerce, Industry, Posts, and Telegraphs
[edit] References
- Young, Robert Power and Pleasure : Louis Barthou and the Third French Republic, Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991, ISBN 0773508635
[edit] External links
- Louis Barthou's Gravesite
- "The King is Dead, Long Live the Balkans! Watching the Marseilles Murders of 1934" The Watson Institute
| Preceded by Charles Jonnart |
Minister of Public Works 1894–1895 |
Succeeded by Ludovic Dupuy-Dutemps |
| Preceded by Ferdinand Sarrien |
Minister of the Interior 1896–1898 |
Succeeded by Henri Brisson |
| Preceded by Armand Gauthier de l'Aude |
Minister of Public Works 1906–1909 |
Succeeded by Alexandre Millerand |
| Preceded by George Trouillot |
Minister of Posts and Telegraphs 1906–1909 |
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| Preceded by Aristide Briand |
Minister of Justice 1909–1910 |
Succeeded by Théodore Girard |
| Preceded by Aristide Briand |
Minister of Justice 1913 |
Succeeded by Antony Ratier |
| Preceded by Aristide Briand |
President of the Council 1913 |
Succeeded by Gaston Doumergue |
| Preceded by Théodore Steeg |
Minister of Public Instruction 1913 |
Succeeded by René Viviani |
| Preceded by — |
Minister of State with Léon Bourgeois, Paul Doumer, Jean Dupuy 1917 |
Succeeded by Léon Bourgeois, Paul Doumer, Jean Dupuy |
| Preceded by Alexandre Ribot |
Minister of Foreign Affairs 1917 |
Succeeded by Stéphen Pichon |
| Preceded by Flaminius Rabierti |
Minister of War 1921–1922 |
Succeeded by André Maginot |
| Preceded by Laurent Bonnevay |
Minister of Justice 1922 |
Succeeded by Maurice Colrat |
| Preceded by Maurice Colrat |
Minister of Justice 1926–1929 |
Succeeded by Lucien Hubert |
| Preceded by André Maginot |
Minister of War 1930–1931 |
Succeeded by André Maginot |
| Preceded by Édouard Daladier |
Minister of Foreign Affairs 1934 |
Succeeded by Pierre Laval |
| Preceded by Henry Roujon |
Seat 28 Académie française 1918-1934 |
Succeeded by Claude Farrère |
