Pierre Célor [SEP] date of birth
Pierre Célor
Pierre Célor (1902, Tulle, Corrèze - 1957) was a member of the French Communist Party from 1923, becoming one of the four secretaries of its Central Committee in 1929, beside Maurice Thorez and Henri Barbé. However, he fell into disgrace after the Comintern and in 1942 he joined the Parti populaire français (PPF) of Jacques Doriot. After the Second World War he participated in the anti-Communist review Est&Ouest and became close to traditional Catholics.
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In 1929, he replaced Pierre Sémard as head of the PCF, in a team which also included Maurice Thorez and Pierre Célor.
In 1931, he was questioned in the course of a meeting of the BP (Bureau Politique), attended by Dmitry Manuilsky, Secretary of the Third International. Ejected from the BP (and replaced by Thorez), he took a long stay in Moscow.
In 1934, he and Jacques Doriot founded the French Popular Party (PPF).
Under the occupation,