Michel Carlini

Michel Carlini
Mayor of Marseille
In office 1947–1953
Preceded by	Jean Cristofol
Succeeded by	Gaston Defferre
Personal details
Born	(1889-07-31)31 July 1889 Marseille, France
Died	25 November 1967(1967-11-25) (aged 78) Marseille, France
Political party	RPF
Profession	Lawyer

Michel Carlini (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl kaʁlini]; 1889, Marseille – 1967) was a French politician. He served as the Mayor of Marseille, France's second largest city, from 1947 to 1953, and as a member of the National Assembly of France for the Bouches-du-Rhone from 1951 to 1955.^[1] He was a member of the center-right Rally of the French People political party, started by General Charles de Gaulle.^[1]

Biography

Michel Charles Carlini was born on 31 July 1889 in Marseille, France.^[1] He received a PhD in Law with merit. He then fought in the First World War, and received the Croix de Guerre and the Croix de Verdun.^[1] After the war, he worked as a lawyer again, married in 1926, and became Dean of the Law School before 1939.^[1] He was also involved with the Red Cross.^[1]

He became Mayor of Marseille in 1947, and battled with Communist strikers and demonstrators, up until 1953.^[1][2] At one point, he had to pretend to step down to assuage the protesters.^[1] In 1955, he did not support the government of Pierre Mendès France.^[1] In 1954, he voted against the European Defence Community.^[1] In 1956, he ran again for the National Assembly of France, and lost.^[1] He helped put together a collection in the Musée de Bastia in Corsica.^[3] He died in Marseille in 1967.^[1]

References

1. French National Assembly biography
2. FRANCE: Death to Carlini!, in Time Magazine, Nov. 24, 1947 [1]
3. Musée de Bastia