François Boux de Casson

François Boux de Casson (24 February 1908 - 31 January 1981) was a French aristocrat, landowner and right-wing politician.

François Boux de Casson was born on 24 February 1908 in Vannes, Morbihan, France.

[1] Boux de Casson joined the Republican Federation, a conservative political party.

[1] He succeeded Charles Gallet as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1936 to 1942, where he represented the second district of Vendée (Les Sables-d'Olonne).

[2] In 1973, he was charged with conspiring to remove Marshal Philippe Pétain's coffin from the Île d'Yeu, with the aim of burying him at the Douaumont Ossuary, the traditional burial ground for veterans of the Battle of Verdun.