Paul Vaillant-Couturier · L’Ordine Nuovo

Name: Paul Vaillant-Couturier
Born: 8 January 1892, Paris
Died: 10 October 1937, Paris
Aliases: Paul Charles Vaillant-Couturier; Vaillant-Couturier (printed in I.18)
Position in 1919–1920: Lawyer, journalist and veterans’ organizer; socialist deputy from November 1919
Affiliations: SFIO (joined 1916); Association républicaine des anciens combattants (cofounder); Clarté appeal signatory; Communist Party from the Tours split in 1920
Council delegate: unknown
Bio: Vaillant-Couturier trained as a lawyer and served in the First World War, during which he joined the Socialist Party. With Henri Barbusse and Raymond Lefebvre he helped found the Association républicaine des anciens combattants and contributed to the socialist press. His name appears on the Clarté appeal reproduced in L’Ordine Nuovo in September 1919. Elected to parliament that November, he joined the new Communist Party at the Tours congress in 1920 and entered its central committee.
Articles: 1
Indexed full catalog cards · Issues I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4, II.5, II.6. Coauthored cards count once for each named author. Serialized installments are counted as separate issue cards.
Brief records / quotations: 0 · Separate from the Articles count.
Other Notes: His parliamentary mandate began on 16 November 1919; he was not yet a deputy when this issue appeared. A parliamentary seat is distinct from a factory-council mandate.

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