Maurice Viollette

Maurice Viollette (3 September 1870 in Janville, Eure-et-Loir – 9 September 1960 in Dreux)^[1] was a French statesman.

Maurice Viollette
Maurice Viollette, 1929.
Born	Maurice Gabriel Viollette  3 September 1870  Janville
Died	9 September 1960  (aged 90) Dreux
Occupation	Politician, legal advocate in France
Awards	Croix de guerre 1914–1918
Position held	senator of the French Third Republic (1930–1939), deputy (1902–1906), deputy (1906–1910), deputy (1910–1914), deputy (1914–1919), deputy (1924–1928), deputy (1928–1930), deputy (1945–1946), deputy (1946–1946), deputy (1946–1951), deputy (1951–1955), Governor of Algeria (1925–1927), mayor (1908–1941), President of the General Council of Eure-et-Loir (1921–1960), mayor (1944–1959), minister of state (1936–1937), minister of state (1938–1938), minister (1917–1917)

He was chief-of-staff for Alexandre Millerand in the Waldeck-Rousseau government in 1898, and was elected as a député for Eure-et-Loir in 1902 and as mayor of Dreux from 1908–1959.

He acted as Transport and Supply Minister in 1917, Governor General of Algeria from 1925 to 1927, Minister of State for the Front Populaire, and author of the Blum-Viollette proposal of 1936, which proposed to grant French citizenship to Algerian elites. Ousted and placed under house arrest by the Vichy government, he was re-elected after the liberation and remained mayor and député of Dreux and president of the Conseil Général of Eure-et-Loir until his death in 1960 at age 90.