Ernest Lafont

[3] Inside French Section of the Workers International (SFIO), Lafont belonged to the insurrectionary syndicalist and anti-parliamentary left.

[6] During this period Lafont was able to mobilize sizeable support from the middle class of Firminy, particularly through campaigns against alcoholism and prostitution.

[6] Lafont travelled to Petrograd in July 1920, seeking to participate in the second congress of the Communist International.

[10] Lafont was named Minister of Public Health in the cabinets of Fernand Bouisson and Pierre Laval, formed in 1935.

[1] In 1936, he lost his parliamentary seat to the SFIO candidate Auguste Muret (the mayor of Gap).