Adrien Pressemane Explained

Adrien Pressemane
Office:Member of the Chamber of Deputies
for Haute-Vienne
Term Start:1 June 1914
Term End:31 May 1924
Office1:Mayor of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat
Term Start1:1919
Term End1:1929
Predecessor1:Aristide Constant
Successor1:Louis Valadas
Birth Date:31 January 1879
Birth Place:Limoges, France
Death Place:Limoges, France
Party:French Section of the Workers' International

Adrien Pressemane (pronounced as /fr/; 31 January 1879 – 26 January 1929) was a French politician and journalist. He was the chief editor of Le Populaire du Centre.[1]

Work

Pressemane worked as a porcelain painter in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat before serving in Parliament for the local district.[2] A general councillor of Haute-Vienne, elected in the canton of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat (1905–1928), the mayor of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat (1919–1929), as well as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (1914–1924), he was the leader of a pacifist trend during World War I.

A Guesdist, he worked with Guesde in the French Workers' Party (Parti Ouvrier Français, POF).[3] He teamed up with Léon Betoulle on issues related to the success of French Section of the Workers' International (Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière, SFIO).[4] He tried to avoid the collapse of the SFIO at the 1920 Tours Congress, but the aftermath was the creation of the French Communist Party. His speech at the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern of 1920 demonstrated his lack of commonality with the Third International.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Braunthal, Julius. History of the International. 4 May 2012. 1967. Praeger. 54.
  2. Book: Amdur, Kathryn Ellen. Syndicalist legacy: trade unions and politics in two French cities in the era of World War I. registration. 4 May 2012. 1986. University of Illinois Press. 978-0-252-01238-9. 48.
  3. Book: Graham, B. D.. Choice and Democratic Order: The French Socialist Party, 1937-1950. 4 May 2012. 20 April 2006. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-02566-9. 63–.
  4. Book: Boswell, Laird. Rural Communism in France, 1920-1939. 4 May 2012. 1998. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-3421-1. 112–.
  5. Book: Robert Wohl. French Communism in the Making, 1914-1924. registration. 4 May 2012. 1 June 1966. Stanford University Press. 978-0-8047-0177-8. 160.