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Jean Cristofol
Jean Cristofol (1901–1957) was a French Communist politician. He was a député in the National Assembly of France from 1936 to 1940, and from 1946 to 1957, then Mayor of Marseille, the second largest city in France, from 1946 to 1947.
Biography.
Jean Joseph Antoine Cristofol was born on 24 March 1901 in Aja-Vilallovent. He became a député in the French National Assembly in 1936. In April 1940, he was sent to prison by the Vichy government for being a Communist
then went to City Hall. They insulted and defenestrates lawyer Gaullist Michel Carlini, who had become alderman defeating by one vote the Communist Jean Cristofol. The protesters then attacked at night shady bars near the Opéra. The young communist worker Vincent Voulant was killed by the mafia clan Guerini. At his funeral, on November 14, three out of four employees in Marseilles were on strike.
The strike spread to miners; on 17 November, 10,000 of them stopped work in protest against the dismissal of Leon Delfosse, communist president