Fernand Loriot
| Fernand Loriot | |
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| Born |
10 October 1870 Ceton, Orne, France |
| Died | 12 October 1932 (aged 62) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Known for | Unionism, pacifism |
Fernand Loriot (10 October 1870 - 12 October 1932) was a French teacher who was active in forming the teachers' union. He took a pacifist stance during World War I. He was one of the founders of the French Communist Party.
Fernand Loriot was born on 10 October 1870 in Ceton, Orne. He became a member of the socialist party in 1901. He became an activist in the Teachers' union. He defied the courts and refused to dissolve the union when the government took action after the Congress of Chambéry.
As Louis Bouët recalled in l'Ecole Emancipée, after the Congress of Chambéry in 1912 teacher's union was in turmoil and was being repressed by the authorities. Loroit took the position of treasurer in the new federal board created by the Seine union. At the Congress of Bourges in 1913 Émile Glay, who had called on Pierre Laval for help as counsel for the Federation, said to Andre Leon Chalopin that nobody would be left in the Seine since their license to teach would be revoked. From the back of the room came the voice of Loriot, who had been paying the delegates their railway allowance, saying "You will not be alone, Chalopin: you can count on me."
During World War I (July 1914 - November 1918) Loriot was caught up in the wave of patriotic socialists who joined the union sacrée, pledging to cooperate with the government. However, according to Marie Guillot by January 1915 he had rejected the union sacrée and taken a pacifist position. In 1915 he was appointed treasurer of the Federation of Teachers' Unions, and was appointed by the secretary Hélène Brion to the central committee. He devoted much effort to fighting the nationalist unions that supported the war, along with Alphonse Merrheim, Albert Bourderon and Raymond Péricat. He was one of the founders of the pacifist Committee for the resumption of international relations, and he and Bourderon were the spokesmen for this committee in the party. In all trade union and socialist congresses he supported the position of the Zimmerwald Conference. Loriot leaned towards the socialist rather than the syndicalist (union) side in this committee, although towards the end of his life he moved towards syndicalism.
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