Monnerville, Gaston

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Monnerville, Gaston
Date of birth
1897-01-02
Date of death
1991-11-07
Associated country
France
French Guiana
Field of activity
Civil service
Law
Occupation
Lawyers
Legislators
Politicians
Public officers
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 32000597
Wikidata: Q443841
Library of congress: n 98047326
OCoLC: oca04735799
Sources of Information
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France WWW auth. file, Aug. 25, 2014(hdg.: Monnerville, Gaston, 1897-1991 ; b.: Jan. 2, 1897 Cayenne ; d.: Nov. 7, 1991 Paris ; French lawyer and politician; Chairman of the Senate (March 1947-October 1968))
  • Témoignage, c1997:t.p. (Gaston Monnerville) p. 11 (b. 1897)
  • Wikipedia, March 20, 2019(Gaston Monnerville; joined the Radical Party; elected Deputy from French Guiana in 1932; during World War II, as a lawyer in Marseille, unoccupied France, he defended persons arrested or persecuted by the Vichy government; when Germany occupied the rest of France in 1942 he went underground, joining the Maquis of Auvergne; in 1945 he was appointed chairman of a commission to determine the future status of the French colonies, and elected Delegate from French Guiana to the First Constituent Assembly of the Fourth Republic; defeated for election to the Third Constituent Assembly in 1946, instead named to the Council of the Republic of France (the Senate), elected President of this Council in 1947; in 1948 he changed his residence from Guiana to Lot and was elected Senator there; served as Senator from Lot and President of the Council until the end of the Fourth Republic in 1958; after De Gaulle's formation of the Fifth Republic he resumed his place in the Senate (now called by that name), and was elected President of the Senate in 1959, serving until 1968; member of the Constitutional Council of France 1977-1983)
  • Gaston Monnerville, c1997
  • LC data base, 05-21-98(hdg.: Monnerville, Gaston)
  • Gaston Monnerville, 1999:p. 103 (b. Jan. 2, 1897 in Cayenne, French Guiana; d. Nov. 7, 1991)