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Abel Gardey

Abel Gardey

French politician

Abel Gardey (21 November 1882, Margouët-Meymes, Gers – 23 September 1957, Pouylebon) was a French politician belonging to the Radical Party. He served as the Minister of Agriculture in the third Herriot government.[1] In 1933, he was the French Minister of Budget. He later became the general reporter for the Senate finance commission and was described as a "bastion of orthodox economics" in May 1939.[2]

Council of Ministers at the Élysée Palace in 1932: Justin Godart (left) and Abel Gardey (right).

On 10 July 1940, he voted as a Senator in favour of granting the cabinet presided by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France.

References

  1. [1]
    Shamir, Haim (1989). Economic Crisis and French Foreign Policy: 1930-1936. Brill Archive. pp. 83–84. ISBN 978-90-04-08958-7.
  2. [2]
    Imlay, Talbot C. (2003). Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938-1940. Oxford University Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-19-926122-2.

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