Pierre Cathala was born on 22 September 1888 in Montfort-sur-Meu, Brittany, France.

[1] He was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis, and in Bayonne where he became friends with Pierre Laval.

[2][3] Cathala served as the French Minister of Finance from 1942 to 1944.

[1] Cathala married Mathilde Henriette Lagrange.

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