Yves Dechezelles

Yves Dechezelles, born on 11 November 1912 in Sables-d'Olonne (Vendée) and died 9 January 2007, was a French activist and politician.

[1] Coming from an active leftist family (he was the nephew of the trade unionists Louis Bouët and his wife Gabrielle), Dechezelles committed himself to socialist students in 1928.

He left the SFIO and instead joined the French Communist Party (PCF), in which he very quickly rose to the position of secretary of the Caen division.

He resigned from the General Secretariat and presented the Congress of August 1947, a motion so-called "Socialist and Revolutionary Action" (ASR).

At the same time, he continued his professional activities as a lawyer in defense of activists of the national liberation movements, among those being mainly Algerians and Tunisians.