Raymond Marcellin (Sézanne, August 19, 1914 - September 8, 2004) was a French politician. Sézanne is a commune of the Marne département in France. ... is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The son of a banker, he studied law at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Paris. He worked as a lawyer for three years, before being called into the army in September 1939. He was captured by the Wehrmacht, but managed to escape and return to France. Thanks to Maurice Bouvier-Ajam, he found a position in the Vichy regime. His job was to diffuse the ideas of the Révolution nationale among youth and professional asociations. He received the Francisque for these services. Later, he joined the Résistance network Alliance of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade and Georges Loustaunau-Lacau. After the Libération, he was a gaullist candidate to the 1946 election in the Morbihan. However, he did not join De Gaulle's RPF, and caucused with the independents.^[1] He initially supported the socialist governements of Léon Blum (december 1946) and Paul Ramadier (january 1947), but voted against them on the statute of Algeria in autumn 1947. In 1948, he was vice-president of the Union démocratique des indépendants (democratic union of the independents). Starting 1949, He was both secretary general of Centre National des Indépendents caucus and adjoint general secretary of this party. On September 11, 1948 he was appointed under-secretary of the Interior under the socialist minister of the Interior Jules Moch in the governement formed by the radical Henri Queuille. On october 29, 1949, Raymond Marcellin was appointed Commerce and Industry under-secretary in the governement of Georges Bidault. In 1951, during his reelection campaign, he was allied with the Mouvement Républicain Populaire, but not with the gaullist Rassemblement du Peuple Français. On this occasion, he declared that voting for the gaullists was taking the risk of sending communists to the Assemblée Nationale. He was reelected on June 17, 1951. On March 8, 1952 Raymond Marcellin was made Minister of Information in the governement of Antoine Pinay. He introduced a minimal service on state radio and TV in case of strike. After december 1952, and the fall of the government of Antoine Pinay, Raymond Marcellin no longer held cabinet positions. Raymond Marcellin was supportive of the continuation of the war in Indochina, and did not vote for the Pierre Mendès-France governement. After being reelected in 1956, Raymond Marcellin did not support the socialist governement of Guy Mollet. However, he approved Mollet's policies in Algeria, and voted for giving special powers to the Army in the fight against FLN on March 12, 1956. He regularly voted for the renewal of these special powers. He also supported the Suez intervention. However, he voted against the fiscal package of the Mollet governement that was supposed to finance the war in Algeria. This led to the fall of the Mollet governement. Raymond Marcellin continued to support the engagement of french troops in Algeria, and voted against Pierre Pfimlin that he suspected of trying to change french policy in Algeria. On june 1, 1958 Raymond Marcellin voted for the governement of Charles De Gaulle, the last governement of the fourth republic. Vichy France (French: now called Régime de Vichy or Vichy; called itself at the time État Français, or French State) was the French state of 1940-1944 which was a puppet government under Nazi influence, as opposed to the Free French Forces, based first in London and later in Algiers. ... The Révolution nationale (National Revolution) was the official ideological name under which the Vichy regime (the French state) established by Marshall Pétain in July 1940 presented its program. ... 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During the fifth republic, he was a member of the National Center of Independents and Peasants (CNIP) and then of the Center of Social Democrats (CDS). On May 15, 1962 Raymond Marcellin entered the governement as Minister of Health. He was then Minister of Industry^[2] from january 8, 1966 to april 1, 1967. He became Interior minister of France from May 30, 1968 to February 27, 1974. In 1971, he tried to introduce a modification of the law of 1901 on freedom of association, which would have made preliminary administrative authorization necessary before being able to create an association. This modification was rejected by the constitutional council. This page is a list of French interior ministers. ... is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Raymond Marcellin was forced to resign in 1974, after policemen of the Directorate of Territorial Security were caught red-handed planting microphones in the offices of Le Canard Enchaîné, an investigating newspaper. He was elected to the Senate on September 22, 1974. He remained a senator until June 21, 1981.^[3] The Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST; Directorate of Territorial Surveillance) is a directorate of the French National Police operating as a domestic intelligence agency. ... Le Canard enchaîné is a satirical newspaper published weekly in France, founded in 1915, featuring investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as a large number of jokes and humorous cartoons. ...

He then served as president of the Regional Council of Bretagne (Brittany) from 1978 to 1986. is divided into 26 régions, further subdivided into départements. ... (Région flag) (Region logo) Location Administration Capital Rennes Regional President Jean-Yves Le Drian (PS) (since 2004) Departments Côtes-dArmor Ille-et-Vilaine Morbihan Finistère Arrondissements 15 Cantons 201 Communes 1,268 Statistics Land area1 27,208 km² Population (Ranked 7th)  - January 1, 2006 est. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...

1. ^ http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/biographies/IVRepublique/marcellin-raymond-19081914.asp
2. ^ http://www.comite-histoire.minefi.gouv.fr/industrie/industrie_les_hommes/ministres_de_l_indus/downloadFile/attachedFile/Minindustrie.pdf
3. ^ http://www.senat.fr/senfic/marcellin_raymond59715v.html