Jacques de Juigné

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| birth_name = Jacques Auguste Marie Le Clerc de Juigné

| birth_date = {{birth-date|16 February 1874}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death-date and age|12 February 1951|16 February 1874}}

| death_place = Juigné-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe, France

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| occupation = Politician

| title = Marquess

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| spouse = Madeleine Le Clerc de Juigné

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| relatives = Henri Schneider (father-in-law)

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Jacques Auguste Marie Le Clerc, marquis de Juigné (16 February 1874 – 12 February 1951) was a French politician.

Early life

Le Clerc de Juigné was born on 16 February 1874 in Paris, France.[http://www.senat.fr/senateur-3eme-republique/de_juigne_jacques1286r3.html French Senate: de JUIGNE Jacques]

Career

He served as the mayor of Juigné-sur-Sarthe from 1900 to 1944.

He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1906 to 1936. He then served in the Senate from 1936 to 1941. On 10 July 1940, he voted as a Senator in favour of granting the cabinet presided by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France.

Personal life

He married Marie Madeleine Schneider, the daughter of Henri Schneider. They resided at the Château de Juigné. He also inherited the Château du Bois-Rouaud in Chéméré, Loire-Atlantique, from his uncle.René Bourreau, Monarchie et modernité : l'utopie restitutionniste de la noblesse nantaise sous la IIIe République, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996, p. 159