He was forced to resign during the scandal of the Stavisky Affair in January 1934, since his advice as Minister of Labor may have made the embezzlement possible.

[1] In 1906 Dalimier ran successfully for election to the legislature for the first constituency of Corbeil in Seine-et-Oise, and was reelected in 1910 and 1914.

On 6 September 1933 Dalimier succeeded Albert Sarraut as Minister of the Colonies in the cabinet of Édouard Daladier.

[1] While Minister of Labor, in June 1932 Dalimier was asked by the Radical deputy Joseph Garat, president of the Bayonne crédit municipal, to remind private insurance companies that they could invest in crédit municipal bonds.

[2] The municipal caisses de crédit acted as pawn shops and provided other banking services.

[3] At the request of the financier Alexandre Stavisky, in September 1932 Albert Dubarry, editor of the Radical daily paper La Volonté, asked Dalimier to let social insurance funds also invest in the bonds of crédits municipaux.

[6] On 3 January 1934 L'Action Française published two letters Dalimier had written in 1932 recommending the purchase of the Bayonne Municipal Pawnshop bonds.