François de Clermont-Tonnerre (politician)

He graduated from the École Nationale des Chartes in Paris.

[2] He joined the French Agrarian and Peasant Party, an agrarian conservative political party He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Somme from 1936 to 1942.

[1] He co-authored Le manifeste paysan: essai d'une doctrine humaniste appliquée à l'agriculture française with Pierre Mathé, published in 1937.

[2] On 10 July 1940, he voted in favour of granting the cabinet presided by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France.

After World War II, he was active in the Rally of the French People (RPF).