Georges Pernot
| Auguste Alain Georges Pernot | |
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Pernot in 1930
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| Minister of Public Works | |
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In office 3 November 1929 – 13 December 1930 |
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| Preceded by | Pierre Forgeot |
| Succeeded by | Édouard Daladier |
| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 8 November 1934 – 7 June 1935 |
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| Preceded by | Henry Lémery |
| Succeeded by | Léon Bérard |
| Minister of Blockade | |
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In office 13 September 1939 – 21 March 1940 |
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| Succeeded by | Georges Monnet |
| Minister of the French Family and Public Health | |
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In office 6 June 1940 – 16 June 1940 |
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| Preceded by | Marcel Héraud |
| Succeeded by | Jean Ybarnégaray |
| Personal details | |
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6 November 1879 Besançon, Doubs, France |
| Died | 14 September 1962 (aged 82) Besançon, Doubs, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Auguste Alain Georges Pernot (6 November 1879 – 14 September 1962) was a conservative French lawyer and politician. He was a deputy and then a senator before and during World War II (1939–45). He was Minister of Public Works in 1929–30, Minister of Justice in 1934–35, Minister of Blockade in 1939–40 and briefly Minister of the French Family and Public Health in June 1940. After World War II (1939–45) he was again a senator from 1946 to 1959. Throughout his career Pernot was a vocal pronatalist, pushing for government policies that would support the family and encourage higher birth rates to counter the demographic crisis in France. He believed that women should be encouraged to remain at home to raise children.
Auguste Alain Georges Pernot was born on 6 November 1879 in Besançon, Doubs. His father was a barrister at the court of Besançon. He was one of eight children, and would himself have seven children. He inherited conservative Catholic views, but was loyal to the Republic. His early education was at the Frères de Marie in Besançon. In 1904 he submitted a legal thesis on the rights to the salary of the married woman.
Georges Pernot became an advocate at the Besançon court of appeal. In 1905, the year in which the separation of the church and state came into force, he fought for the clerical cause. He enlisted in the territorial army in 1914 at the start of World War I (1914–18). He volunteered for the front, was wounded, received three citations, rose to the rank of captain and was decorated with the Legion of Honor.
Pernot was elected a municipal councilor in Besançon in 1919. Throughout his political career Pernot was interested in family rights. In 1921 he founded the Union of Large Families of Doubs, one of the first branches of the Federation of Associations of Large Families (Fédération des Associations des Familles Nombreuses), created in September 1921.
Pernot was elected deputy for Doubs in 1924. He led the left wing of the National Catholic Federation (Fédération nationale catholique, FNC). As a Social Catholic he pushed for social reforms. By 1926 there was support for pacification, in which the Catholics would stop trying to capture the state and in exchange would be allowed to teach. In 1927 he criticized the right wing members of the FNC "whose intransigence had harmed them in the past, and who were depriving themselves once again of the influence that they ought to have on the destiny of the country.
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