Stanislas Devaud
French politician (1896-1963)
Stanislas Devaud (15 May 1896, Le Péage-de-Roussillon – 28 June 1963) was a French politician.
Biography
Stanislas Séraphin Augustin Devaud is the son of Joseph Georges Devaud, a silk worker, and Marie Joséphine Goubin.
When the World War I broke out, he volunteered in November 1914 with the 22nd Colonial Infantry Regiment (22nd RIC). On September 30, 1915, he was seriously wounded at Massiges by shrapnel to the right knee. He was cited in the army order, decorated with the military medal and the croix de guerre with palm.
After the war, having received a pension for invalidity on July 1, 1917, he resumed his studies in Paris. While working as a supervisor at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, he met Augustin Ibazizen, a supervisor like himself, with whom he became friends and whom he would later see again in the Croix-de-Feu and then in the French Social Party (PSF).
He received his Agrégation in philosophy in 1922 and was appointed the following year to the high school in Constantine (Algeria).
A member of the Croix-de-Feu and the French Social Party of Colonel de la Rocque, he narrowly failed in the 1932 legislative elections. In 1936 he was elected deputy of Constantine.
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