Pierre Laval

Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval (1931)
101st Prime Meenister o Fraunce
In office 27 Januar 1931 – 20 Februar 1932
Precedit bi	Théodore Steeg
Succeedit bi	André Tardieu
112th Prime Meenister o Fraunce
In office 7 Juin 1935 – 24 Januar 1936
Precedit bi	Fernand Bouisson
Succeedit bi	Albert Sarraut
120th Prime Meenister o Fraunce (as Vice-Preses o the Cooncil) Heid o State an nominal Heid o Govrenment: Philippe Pétain
In office 11 Julie 1940 – 13 December 1940
Precedit bi	Philippe Pétain
Succeedit bi	Pierre Étienne Flandin
123rd Prime Meenister o Fraunce
In office 18 Aprile 1942 – 20 August 1944
Precedit bi	François Darlan
Succeedit bi	Charles de Gaulle
Personal details
Born	28 Juin 1883(1883-06-28) Châteldon
Dee'd	15 October 1945(1945-10-15) (aged 62) Fresnes
Poleetical pairty	None
Religion	Roman Catholic

Pierre Laval (French pronunciation: ​[pjɛʁ laval]; 28 Juin 1883 – 15 October 1945) wis a French politeecian. He wis fower times Preses o the cooncil o meenisters o the Third Republic, twice consecutively.

Follaein Fraunce's surrender an Airmistice wi Germany in 1940, he servit twice in the Vichy Regime as heid o govrenment. He signed orders permittin the deportation o foreign Jews frae French sile tae the Nazi daith camps.

Efter Liberation (1945), Laval wis arrestit bi the French govrenment unner General Charles de Gaulle, foond guilty o heich traison, an executit bi firin squad. The controversy surroondin his poleetical activities haes generatit a dozen biografies.