Bidault, inter alia along with other people well known, was imprisoned by the Spanish in an Internment camp at Miranda de Ebro.

[2] Bidault participated in the forming of the Conseil National de la Résistance and, after the Gestapo captured Moulin, he became its new president.

In social policy, Bidault's government was notable for passing important pension and workman's compensation laws.

[10] In 1948, weapons valued at 153 million francs were donated to Israel by the French government, in accordance with a secret agreement approved by Bidault.

[11] Deputy Chief of Staff General Henri Coudraux, who was involved in the operation, told a 1949 inquiry that France had "reached a secret agreement with the Irgun, which promised it advantages if it were to come into power [in Israel]."

During his last term as premier, a law of February 1950 that regulated collective bargaining, and included a guarantee of the right of workers to strike.

He protested to the Red Cross that the Viet Minh were shooting at clearly marked French medical evacuation flights, killing some of the evacuees.

[14] The ongoing fighting in Indochina had exhausted him; he was described by American secretary of state John Foster Dulles as "a deeply harassed man" and later by a historian as "on the verge of a nervous breakdown".

In 1961 Bidault became President of the Executive Council of the society Rally for French Algeria and opposed De Gaulle's policy of Algerian independence.

He established his own National Resistance Council within the far-right paramilitary organization OAS (Organisation armée secrète).

In his political memoirs, Bidault stated that he was never involved with the OAS, and was not qualified to give any precise information about its deeds.

[17] When the Front national was founded in October 1972 by members of Ordre nouveau, he participated but resigned from the organisation a few days later.