Hervé de Lyrot [SEP] native language
Hervé de Lyrot
Hervé de Lyrot (26 May 1885 - 21 June 1956) was a French banker and politician, descended from François de Lyrot de La Patouillère.
During World War II he chose to go into exile in England and the United States rather than remain in Vichy France.
Leon Hervé Charles de Lyrot was born on 26 May 1885 in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise. He inherited the title of Count.
He made his career in banking. 
Hervé de Lyrot married Emilie De Villahermose.
women's suffrage in parliament.
Hervé de Lyrot was absent at the 10 July 1940 vote by the Vichy Congress on giving Marshal Pétain the powers he had demanded.
He was concerned about racist threats against his wife, who was of Jewish origin. 
He and his fellow deputy Henri de Kérillis flew in Hervé de Lyot's plane from Bordeaux to Jersey, 
from where the English took them to Exeter on 15 June 1940.
He was in the United States in September 1942, when he signed a letter