Sarndra's shadow at the grave of Bernard LEFAY and his wife Paulette nee MARNONVILLER

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Sarndra's shadow at the grave of Bernard LEFAY and his wife Paulette nee MARNONVILLER
Sarndra's shadow at the grave of Bernard LEFAY and his wife Paulette nee MARNONVILLER

Paris Day 2 - Montparnasse area and cemetery

Bernard Lafay, born September 8, 1903 in Malakoff (Seine) and died February 13, 1977 in Paris, is a doctor of medicine and doctor of science, member of the Academy of Medicine and French politician.

Father of Doctor Philippe Lafay, Bernard Lafay is a general practitioner and stands out for his work. Mobilized in 1939, he put his professional knowledge at the service of the Resistance as a member of the Resistance Medical Committee with Gabriel Richet, which enabled him to be elected in 1945 to the Paris City Council. His candidatures for the elections of the two Constituent Assemblies of 1945 and 1946 (in Paris) and of the first National Assembly of November 1946 (in the Tarn), under the label of the Radical Party, are failures. He was however elected by this Assembly to the Council of the Republic in 1946. He was re-elected to the Senate in November 1948.

He resigned from it on August 21, 1951, after being elected deputy for the 2nd district of the Seine (western part of the right bank of Paris), at the head of an RGR-PR list, with Pierre de Léotard. They were both re-elected in 1956.

Briefly Secretary of State to Edgar Faure, he became the following year his Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in the government of Joseph Laniel. Edgar Faure, who became President of the Council, recalls this in 1955 as Minister of Public Health and Population.

Bernard Lafay was narrowly defeated, during the elections of November 1958, in the 23rd constituency of Paris, by the UNR Guy Vaschetti. However, he returned to Luxembourg in 1959. He resigned again in 1967 in order to stand for the legislative elections. Elected centrist PDM against the outgoing Gaullist deputy Jacques Sanglier, he ran again the following year, after the dissolution of the Assembly, but this time under the colors of the UDR, with, as deputy, his former adversary Jacques Sanglier . The latter resumed his seat when Lafay was appointed Secretary of State in the government of Jacques Chaban-Delmas.

Involved in the municipal battle of 1977 alongside Jacques Chirac, he died of a heart attack in the middle of the electoral campaign.

He was Chairman of the Paris City Council and Secretary General of the Republican Center from 1960 to 1968, member of the Steering Committee of the Republican Center. The Republican Center was a staunch defender of French Algeria. He was also a member in 1960 of the National Front for French Algeria2.

He is at the origin of the reform of the statute of Paris and was the last president of the Council of Paris (1975-1977).

He entered the Academy of Medicine in February 1956.

From Wikipedia and translated via google translate
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lafay

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