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Déat, Marcel 1894-1955
French politician

Born in Guerigny, he was the founder in 1933 of the Socialist Party of France, which was Fascist in outlook. His pro-Nazi sympathies procured him the post of Minister of Labour in the Vichy government, and having achieved notoriety by his ruthless deportations of French workers to Germany, he fled there himself in 1945. He was sentenced to death in absentia, but evaded arrest until his death in Turin.