Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: French Section of the Workers' International politicians, Christian Pineau, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Pierre Laval, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, Paul Rassinier, Leon Blum, Guy Mollet, Jean Jaures, Pierre Beregovoy, Leo Lagrange, Vincent Auriol, Hoang Van Chi, Marcel Deat, Pierre Mauroy, Raymond Aron, Maurice Thorez, Daniel Guerin, Boris Souvarine, Jules Guesde, Augustin Malroux, Joseph Paul-Boncour, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Paul Ramadier, Gaston Defferre, Blaise Diagne, Barry III, Roger Salengro, Marceau Pivert, Edouard Depreux, Socialist Democracy of Guinea, Ludovic-Oscar Frossard, Robert Lacoste, Michel Zunino, Tours Congress, Andre Le Troquer, Paul Marion, Nguy n H u Th, Edouard Vaillant, Felix Gouin, Georges Sarre, Marx Dormoy, Louis Nogueres, Paul Brousse, Camille Bedin, Jean Biondi, Georges Bruguier, Alexandre Bachelet, Fernand Bouisson, Jean-Fernand Audeguil, Paul Faure, Brutus Network, Adrien Marquet, Arthur Chaussy, Pierre Semard, Gaston Cabannes, Seraphin Buisset, Daniel Mayer, Freie Presse, Emile Muller, Lamine Gueye, Albert Mathiez, Rene Lefeuvre, Liberation-sud, Albert Liurette, Oran socialiste, Charles Spinasse, Georges Marrane, Roger Roche, Andre Philip, Le Populaire, L'Avenir. Excerpt: Pierre Laval (French pronunciation: 28 June 1883 - 15 October 1945) was a French politician. He was four times President of the council of ministers of the Third Republic, twice consecutively. Following France's Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government, signing orders permitting the deportation of foreign Jews from French soil to the death camps. After Liberation (1945), he was arrested, found guilty of high treason, and executed by firing squad. The controversy surrounding his political activities has generated a dozen biographies. Laval was born 28 June 1883 at Chateldon, Pu...