François de Menthon
François de Menthon is a Résistant, Politician and a Juriste French, born the January 8th 1900 with Montmirey-the-City (the Jura) and deceased the June 2nd 1984 with Annecy (Haute-Savoie).
Incorporated of right, he was professor with the Faculty of Law of Nancy.
Pre-war period
He was president of the catholic Action of 1927 with 1930.
Resistance
In 1939, it requires to leave to the combat. In 1940, it is wounded and made captive, but succeeds in escaping and joined Resistance since 1940. It receives on several occasions Jean Moulin with the Château of Menthon-Saint-Bernard. Founder of the movement Freedom with Annecy, then with Lyon in November 1940 and editor of his clandestine newspaper, whose two numbers were printed in Annecy and the following with Marseilles. It was one of the persons in charge of the movement “Fights” resulting from the fusion of Freedom with the movement rested by Henri Frenay “Small wings of France” end 1941.
In 1943, it then joined the general de Gaulle with London then with Algiers where it is named Commissaire with Justice within the French Comité of the national Release of Algiers.
High-civil servant
With the Release, François de Menthon becomes Minister for Justice in the Provisional government of the French Republic of the general de Gaulle of September 1944 until the May 8th, 1945. He occupied himself inter alia lawsuit of the marshal Pétain and purification of the collaborator civils servant of the Régime of Vichy. At one time he was highly criticized by the followers of a massive purification.
Then it was named, by the general de Gaulle, prosecutor with the court of Nuremberg. It gave crime against the Humanité the following definition: “crime against the statute of human being moved by an ideology which is a crime against the spirit aiming at rejecting humanity in the Barbarie”.
Work political
Companion of the Release, founder of MRP, it is appointed Savoy of 1946 with 1958. Of June 24th in France December 16th, 1946, he is Minister for the national Économie in the Gouvernement Georges Bidault (1). He militates for a renovated parliamentary mode.
He also devotes to the European cause and becomes president of the parliamentary Assemblée of the Council of Europe (then Consultative Assembly) of 1952 with 1954. He presents in this quality the first official spangled flag of the European Community.
Its positions against de Gaulle, will move away it from the ministerial positions after 1958 and a political career which was announced like promising. He turns over to the university education to the Université of Nancy and his local mandates. He was mayor of Menthon-Saint-Bernard of 1945 with 1977 and during twenty-two years Association of the mayors and general adviser chair.
Carried by political convictions founded on humanistic and Christian ideal, he was also the founder of the movement of the Christian working Jeunesse, because according to his son Olivier de Menthon: “It estimated that the role of the catholics was to take part in the evolution of the company” and “the Faith was in the middle of its existence. ”
Its family
It had with his wife Nicole, six boys:
- Bernard, farmer in the department of Expensive and Mayor of Levet, deceased in 2001;
- Jean, tax inspector in Paris;
- Jacques, deceased;
- Etienne, wine grower in Vaucluse;
- Olivier de Menthon, current owner of the castle of Menthon;
- Sixth, professor in Paris.
Books
- the Law on national unworthiness - Modern Printing works, Beirut 1944
- the Lawsuit of Nuremberg: the French charge - French Office of Edition, Paris 1946
- the Lawsuit of Nuremberg, its legal and political importance - ED. email, Paris 1946
- Towards the Fourth Republic - ED. Hatchet, Paris 1946
- the economic expansion with the service of the social progress - Printing works F. of Beroud, Paris 1951
Quotations
- The nobility has only duties and any right.