Émile Hugues Explained

Émile Hugues
Office:Secretary of State for Finance and Economic Affairs
Primeminister:René Pleven
Term Start:11 August 1951
Term End:20 January 1952
Office2:Secretary of State for Information
Primeminister2:René Mayer /Joseph Laniel
Term Start2:8 January 1953
Term End2:18 June 1954
Office3:Minister of Justice
Primeminister3:Pierre Mendès France
Term Start3:19 June 1954
Term End3:3 September 1954
Office4:Secretary of State for Finance and Economic Affairs
President4:Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury/Félix Gaillard
Term Start4:17 June 1957
Term End4:14 May 1958
Birth Date:7 April 1901
Birth Place:Vence, France
Death Place:Paris
Party:Radical-Socialist (1946-1958)
Otherparty:Gauche démocratique (1959-1966)
Profession:Lawyer

Émile Hugues (b. Vence, 7 April 1901 – d. Paris, 10 February 1966) was a French politician and government minister.

With a doctorate in law and by profession a notaire, Hugues was elected in 1946 as a Radical-Socialist député for the Alpes-Maritimes département to the second constituent National Assembly, and subsequently to the Assemblée nationale, in which he sat until 1958. In 1959, he was elected to the Senate as a member of the Gauche démocratique (Democratic Left). He died in office.

Hugues left the government following the rejection of the planned European Defence Community in 1954, which he had warmly supported. He followed Henri Queuille and André Morice into the Radical dissidence in 1956, which led to the creation of the Centre républicain. He voted for Charles de Gaulle in June 1958, but was beaten in the November 1958 elections.

He was mayor of Vence and councillor for the Alpes-Maritimes.

The castle in Vences is today the Fondation Émile Hugues, a modern and contemporary art museum.[1]

Government offices

Notes and References

  1. Itinéraire découverte de la Cité Historique, Office de Tourisme de Vence 2011