Léon Blum
1872 to 1950
14 documented presences
11 places
Quo Fuit places 14 dated presences for Léon Blum across 11 places, from 1872 to 1950. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
André Léon Blum (9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Léon Blum was documented, and when
1872year
Parisattested
“Blum was born in 1872 in Paris to a moderately prosperous, middle class, assimilated Jewish family in the mercantile business.”
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1919year
Moscowattested
“Blum opposed French intervention in the Russian Civil War, but was cautious about calls from the more radical Socialists to affiliate with the Comintern that had been founded in Moscow in 1919.”
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1933year
Franceattested
“One of Blum's friends, Rudolf Hilferding, a prominent Jewish Social Democratic leader who had fled to France in 1933 was under the terms of the armistice arrested by the French police and returned to German custody, where he was beaten t…”
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August 1936month
Parisattested
“In August 1936, Schacht visited Paris where he met Blum to discuss a possible deal under which France would return the former German African colonies administered by France as mandates for the League of Nations and the end of the trade w…”
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1937year
Germanyattested
“Blum told Schacht that he was willing to return French Togoland (modern Togo) and French Cameroon (modern Cameroon) to Germany as the price of peace, and pursued this line of negotiation with Schacht well into 1937.”
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May 1937month
Parisattested
“The Franco-Soviet staff talks stained Anglo-French relations with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden telling Blum during a visit to Paris in May 1937 that his government was opposed to Franco-Soviet staff talks as dangerous to the pe…”
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1939year
Belgiumattested
“Blum ordered the Maginot line to be extended along the Franco-Belgian border, but only little work had been accomplished by 1939 and France was still very much exposed to a German invasion via Belgium.”
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14 May 1940exact date
Bournemouthattested
“On 13–14 May 1940, Blum was in Bournemouth to attend the Labour Party congress.”
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July 1940month
Londonattested
“In July 1940, Blum ordered a young Socialist politician, Daniel Mayer, not to go to London to join de Gaulle's Free French movement, but to go to the unoccupied zone in the south of France to organize a resistance group.”
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17 April 1945exact date
Dachau concentration campattested
“On 17 April 1945, Blum and his wife arrived at Dachau, where Blum was shocked by the "living skeletons" that were the prisoners of Dachau.”
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1946year
United Statesattested
“Blum paid a two-month visit to the United States in the spring of 1946 where along with the economist Jean Monnet he sought a loan for the reconstruction of war-devastated France.”
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12 April 1946exact date
White Houseattested
“Blum was greeted at the White House by President Truman as an honoured guest, and Blum was a keynote speaker at a ceremony to honor the first anniversary of Roosevelt's death on 12 April 1946.”
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30 March 1950exact date
Parisattested
“He continued to write for Le Populaire until his death at Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris, on 30 March 1950.”
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30 March 1950exact date
Jouy-en-Josasattested
“He continued to write for Le Populaire until his death at Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris, on 30 March 1950.”
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Places Léon Blum is documented in
Paris4 presences · 1872 to 1950Belgium1 presence · 1939France1 presence · 1933Germany1 presence · 1937London1 presence · 1940Moscow1 presence · 1919United States1 presence · 1946White House1 presence · 1946
Bournemouth1 presence · 1940
Dachau concentration camp1 presence · 1945
Jouy-en-Josas1 presence · 1950
Other places tied to Léon Blum in the record
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1899year
Francementioned
“Despite all of the passions created by the Dreyfus Affair, in 1899 he wrote he had no fears of "a Saint Bartholomew's Day of the Jews", writing that pogroms were possible "in Poland, Galicia, or Romania or maybe in Algiers, but not in Fr…”
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1899year
Polandmentioned
“Despite all of the passions created by the Dreyfus Affair, in 1899 he wrote he had no fears of "a Saint Bartholomew's Day of the Jews", writing that pogroms were possible "in Poland, Galicia, or Romania or maybe in Algiers, but not in Fr…”
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1899year
Algiersmentioned
“Despite all of the passions created by the Dreyfus Affair, in 1899 he wrote he had no fears of "a Saint Bartholomew's Day of the Jews", writing that pogroms were possible "in Poland, Galicia, or Romania or maybe in Algiers, but not in Fr…”
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1905year
Francementioned
“Blum stated that both men and women should enjoy a period of "polygamic" free sex life in order to experience a more mature and stable relationship during later married life: “For both men and women, the life of adventure must precede th…”
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1914 to 1918period
Russiamentioned
“The evolution of the more left-wing French Socialists from supporting the war in 1914 to opposing it by 1918 was also reflected in Russia.”
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1916year
Francementioned
“Pétain, the victor of the Battle of Verdun in 1916 was a beloved and deeply respected figure in France where he was seen as the greatest living French war hero and Reynaud saw Pétain in his cabinet as way to reassure the public.”
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November 1917month
Palestinementioned
“In November 1917, Blum supported the Balfour Declaration promising a "Jewish national home" in Palestine if the Allies won the war.”
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1919year
French National Assemblymentioned
“In 1919 he was chosen as chair of the party's executive committee, and was also elected to the National Assembly as a representative of Paris.”
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1921year
Canadamentioned
“Blum had learned from Bullitt about Roosevelt's secret, namely that he was paralyzed due to the polio he contracted on a trip to Canada in 1921, and he admired the way that Roosevelt had gone on to become president despite his paralysis.”
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1922year
Russiamentioned
“In a 1922 speech, Blum expressed his disagreement with Communism, saying the Bolshevik regime in Russia was not a "dictatorship of the proletariat", but rather a "dictatorship over the proletariat".”
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1925year
Germanymentioned
“In foreign policy, Blum supported the Herriot government's conciliatory policy towards Germany, and he voted for the Locarno Pact in 1925.”
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1928year
Parismentioned
“In the 1928 election, the conservatives were victorious and Blum lost his seat in Paris to the Communist Jacques Duclos.”
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1929year
Jerusalemmentioned
“In 1929, Blum, along with Albert Einstein, attended the founding of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, where both Blum and Einstein spoke in favor of Zionism.”
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1932 to 1934period
Genevamentioned
“Blum put great hopes in the World Disarmament Conference held in Geneva between 1932 and 1934, and tended to cast the French government as the villain with for its warnings that German rearmament would mean another world war.”
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15 December 1932exact date
1934year
May 1935month
May 1935month
17 July 1936exact date
4 December 1936exact date
1937year
1937year
1938year
15 March 1938exact date
Documented at the same place, the same year
Django ReinhardtUnited States · 1946Pyotr KrasnovGermany · 1937Antonin ArtaudParis · 1936Gerald DurrellBournemouth · 1940Lee MillerDachau concentration camp · 1945Vladimir MayakovskyMoscow · 1919Alexandra of DenmarkMoscow · 1919Camille PissarroFrance · 1872Jules MassenetFrance · 1872Frances Hodgson BurnettFrance · 1872John Maynard KeynesUnited States · 1946John Kenneth GalbraithUnited States · 1946
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