Adrien Tixier

He returned to his teaching career in August 1915 and became a senior teacher at the École supérieure professionnelle in the town of Albi.

On 20 June 1940, with Professor Edgard Milhaud, and Jean-Amédée Weber, he sent a telegram to Marshal Pétain in protest of the request for an armistice and asked for the continuation of the war alongside the British.

He joined General de Gaulle, who charged him in November 1941 of representing the Free France in Washington, where he was appreciated by the Franklin Roosevelt administration.

He was appointed interior minister in September 1944 in the Provisional Government of France, led by General de Gaulle, and held the post until January 1946.

He was then elected in September 1945, to the General Council from Bessines-sur-Gartempe, and in October 1945, he became a socialist member of the Haute-Vienne in the First National Constituent Assembly.