Paul Faure (politician)

He was a minister of state under Camille Chautemps's third Ministry from June 1936 to January 1938 and from March to April 1938, during the period of the Popular Front.

[2] Faure first became a member of Jules Guesde's Parti ouvrier français (POF) in 1901[3] and was editor-in-chief of the Populaire du Centre.

[4] Starting from 1915, he rallied to the centrist and pacifist minority of Jean Longuet in the SFIO, and during the Tours Congress in 1920 he opposed adhesion to the Third International.

The Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci underscored how, when Faure visited Imola in 1919, after the Bologna Congress, he had seemed to be in perfect agreement with the representatives of Italian "unitarism".

The PSD attracted only deputies accused of collaborationism and dedicated part of its efforts to attempts at rehabilitation of Philippe Pétain's reactionary regime.