Charles Tillon

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Charles Tillon (July 3, 1897 - January 13, 1993) was a French politician.

[edit] Biography

Tillon was born in Rennes in the Ille-et-Vilaine département.

When he was mobilized in 1916 with the French navy, he was one of the directors of the mutiny on the Black Sea on June 26, 1919. He was convicted to the forced labor camps in Morocco for five years. In 1921, he was released as a result of a pardon. After his stay at the forced labor camp, he adhered to the French Communist Party and the CGT union. He entered the central committee of the party in 1932 and became the deputy of Aubervilliers in 1936.

After the September, 1939 dissolution of the French Communist Party, he organized the Francs-tireurs section of the French Resistance clandestinely and became the chief of its national military committee.

After the war, he was elected as the communist deputy of the Seine region in 1945 and reelected in 1951. He was a member of two constitutional assemblies in 1945-1946, after which he took a position in the French National Assembly in 1955. He was a member of the French Communist Party's political bureau from 1945-1952 and directed the Movement for Peace. He was excluded from the FCP in 1952, together with André Marty, following the Marty-Tillon Affair. Tillon was reinstated in 1957, and again excluded in 1970 after protesting against the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and criticisms of the stalinist functioning of the FCP.

He died in Marseilles.

[edit] Government functions

• Air minister of the first government of Charles de Gaulle (from September 10, 1944 to November 21, 1945)
• Armaments minister of the second government of Charles de Gaulle (from November 21, 1945 to January 26, 1946)
• Armaments minister of the government of Félix Gouin (from January 26, 1945 to June 24, 1946)
• Armaments minister of the first government of Georges Bidault (from June 24, 1946 to December 16, 1946)
• Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning of the first government of Paul Ramadier (from January 22, 1947 to May 4, 1947)

[edit] Bibliography

• Tillon Charles, Un « procès de Moscou » à Paris, Seuil, Paris, 1971.
• Tillon Charles, On chantait rouge, Robert Laffont, Paris, 1977.