Article: OBITUARY : Christian Pineau

Christian Pineau was a trade-union activist, writer, Resistance leader, and a socialist deputy and minister under the Fourth Republic (playing leading roles in the Suez crisis of 1956 and the development of the Common Market).

Pineau was born in 1904 in Chaumont-en-Basigny (Haute Marne) and attended the Ecole Alsacienne in Paris. He graduated with degrees in law and in political science before starting work for the Banque de France in 1931 and then joining the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. He founded the banking journal Banque et Bourse in 1937, but had also become secretary general of the bank union in 1934. In 1938 he quit the bank to become full-time secretary of the economic council ...

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