Modeste Legouez (1908–1989) was a French farmer in Normandy and senator for Eure from 1959 to 1989.
Legouez was born September 24, 1908 in Épreville-près-le-Neubourg. He was a reasonably large farmer who inherited his farm from his parents in 1930.[1] He started in politics by becoming the first president of the Jeunesses Paysannes, popularly known as the "Greenshirts", the youth section of Henri Dorgères' Comités de défense paysanne in the 1930s.[2] He came within 700 votes[3] of defeating the future prime minister Pierre Mendes France in the 1936 French legislative election[4] in what Mendes France regarded as his hardest electoral fight.[5]
Legouez became the head of the Peasant Corporation for the Eure[6] from 1942 to 1944 for which he was interned for a few months after the liberation of France.[1]
As a senator Legouez was a member of the Groupe de l'Union des Républicains et des Indépendants.[1]
Legouez was a knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit. He died on January 30, 1989.
References
- ^ a b c Senate of France 2014.
- ^ Ory 1975, pp. 183–184.
- ^ Paxton 1997, p. 107.
- ^ Ory 1975, p. 179.
- ^ Charpon & Léonard 2015, para. 14.
- ^ Charpon & Léonard 2015, para. 16.
Sources
- Charpon, Françoise; Léonard, Yves (2015), Pierre Mendès France, élu d’un département rural, Presses universitaires de Rennes, ISBN 978-2-7535-2339-5, retrieved 2024-11-19
- Ory, Pascal (1975), "Le dorgérisme, institution et discours d'une colère paysanne (1929-1939)", Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 22 (2): 168–190, doi:10.3406/rhmc.1975.2416, retrieved 2024-11-13
- Paxton, Robert O. (1997-09-26), French Peasant Fascism : Henry Dorgeres' Greenshirts and the Crises of French Agriculture, 1929-1939, Oxford University Press, USA, ISBN 978-0-19-535474-4, retrieved 2024-11-13
- Senate of France (2014), Legouez Modeste, Ancien sénateur de l'Eure, Senate of France
