Maurice Long (politician)

French politician

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Maurice Long


Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Drôme
In office 8 May 1910 – 15 January 1923
Minister of Supply
In office 12 September (12 September) – 17 November 1917 (17 November 1917)
President	Paul Painlevé
Governor-General of French Indochina
In office 10 December 1919 (10 December 1919) – 15 January 1923 (15 January 1923)

Personal details
Born	15 March 1866 Crest, France
Died	15 January 1923 (aged 56) Colombo, Ceylon

Maurice Long (15 March 1866 – 15 January 1923) was a French politician. A député for Drôme, he was briefly a Minister of Supply under the government of Paul Painlevé in 1917 and the Governor-General of French Indochina from 10 December 1919 until his death.^[1]

Biography

Maurice Long was born on 15 March 1866 in Crest, Drôme. From 8 May 1910 until his death, he represented his home department in the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Radical-Socialist Party. During World War I, Long was the Minister of Supply for the cabinet of Paul Painlevé from 12 September to 17 November 1917. On 10 December 1919, Long was appointed Governor-General of French Indochina, a position he held until his death.^[1]

Death and legacy

At the age of 57, Maurice Long died in Colombo, Ceylon on 15 January 1923 while returning to Indochina after a stay in France.^[1]

The Musée Maurice Long, a former commercial and industrial museum in Hanoi, was named after the late Governor-General.^[2] On 1 May 1938, at the museum, "a meeting of many thousands of Hanoi workers demanded 'freedom, democracy, the right to organise trade unions, the improvement of the quality of life', a key event in the build-up to the First Indochina War against the French."^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Biographie extraite du dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1889 à 1940 (Jean Jolly)". Assemblée nationale.
^ Dias, Nélia (March 2014). "Rivet's mission in colonial Indochina (1931-1932); Or, the failure to create an ethnographic museum" (PDF). History and Anthropology: 7.
^ Logan, William Stewart (2000). Hanoi: Biography of a City. UNSW Press. p. 129. ISBN 9780868404431.