Émile Berlia [SEP] date of death
Émile Berlia
Émile Berlia (23 May 1878 – 13 August 1946) was a French politician.
Berlia was born in Toulouse. As a young man, he joined the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). An associate of Albert Bedouce, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1933 to 1940. In 1945, having been excluded from the SFIO, he joined the newly founded Democratic Socialist Party (PSD).
presidential election Bedouce was the candidate of the SFIO, but lost to Albert Lebrun, the candidate of the Democratic Republican Alliance. On 10 July 1940, he 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. For this he was expelled from the SFIO after the Liberation of France. In 1945 he joined, with his associate Émile Berlia, the newly founded Democratic Socialist Party (PSD).