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Louis Mourier

French, 1873 - 1960

BiographyMedical doctor in his native village of Vézénobres. He was director of Public Assistance in Paris from 1920 to 1938 and pursued an active policy of building new hospitals and modernizing obsolete infrastructure in the Paris region. This personal investment in this function earned him to be elected to the Academy of Medicine . After leaving his post in 1938, he became a senator. At the beginning of the "phony war", he had a law on the assignment of mobilized soldiers adopted, which took up the principles of the "Mourier law" of 1917. The Mourier law formalized the principle of the assignment to the rear of soldiers who were fathers four or more children and older classes present at the front. He votes in July 1940 constitutional powers to Marshal Pétain, then retired from political life.

Under-Secretary of State for the Administration of the Army of September 12 to November 16 , 1917in the Paul Painlevé government.
Under-Secretary of State for the Health Service of the February 5 , 1918 to January 20 , 1920in the Georges Clemenceau government.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mourier accessed 1/19/2022 SM

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