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| | Albert Lebrun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Lebrun gained a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in 1900 as a member of the Left Republican Party, later serving on the cabinetas Minister for the Colonies from 1911-1914 and Minister for Liberated Regions, 1917-1919. |
 | | Re-elected in 1939, largely becauseof his record of accommodating all political sides, he exercised little power as president and was forced to accept the German terms of surrender in on July 10, 1940, after which he was replaced by Philippe Pétain (although Lebrun never officially resigned). |
 | | On August 9, 1944, when the Allies restored the French government, Lebrun met with Charles de Gaulle and acknowledged the General's leadership, saying that he had not formally resigned aspresident because the dissolution of the National Assembly had left nobody to accept his resignation. |
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