Pierre Mathé
Pierre Mathé (1882-1956) was a French conservative agrarian politician. Early lifePierre Mathé was born on 1 August 1882 in Giry, rural France.[1][2] CareerMathé joined the French Agrarian and Peasant Party, an agrarian conservative political party, and became its President. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Côte-d'Or from 1936 to 1942.[1] He co-authored Le manifeste paysan: essai d'une doctrine humaniste appliquée à l'agriculture française with François de Clermont-Tonnerre, published in 1937.[2] On 10 July 1940, Mathé voted in favour of granting the cabinet presided by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France. In November 1941, he was made a member of the National Council of Vichy France.[3] DeathHe died on 3 June 1956 in Paris, France.[1][2] References
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