He joined the party in 1921, and was elected a member of its Central Committee seven years later.
From 1935 to 1943 he was a high-ranking member of the Presidium of the Communist International for Youth and was general secretary of the Executive Committee for a period.
[1][2] He was a member of the Politbureau of the Communist Party of France from 1945 to 1972.
He was also deputy to the National Assembly from 1937–40 and 1946–58, and was made a senator in 1959.
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