Raymond Guyot

{{Short description|French politician (1903–1986)}}

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Raymond Guyot (November 17, 1903 - April 17, 1986) was a French politician, leader of the French Communist Party.

Guyot was born in Auxerre. He joined the party in 1921, and was elected a member of its Central Committee seven years later. From 1935 to 1943 he was a high-ranking member of the Presidium of the Communist International for Youth and was general secretary of the Executive Committee for a period.{{cite book|last=O'Sullivan|first=Donal|title=Dealing with the Devil: Anglo-Soviet Intelligence Cooperation in the Second World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHs2-DmdIRIC&pg=PA75|year=2010|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-1-4331-0581-4|page=75}}

He was a member of the Politbureau of the Communist Party of France from 1945 to 1972. He was also deputy to the National Assembly from 1937–40 and 1946–58, and was made a senator in 1959.{{cite web|url=http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Raymond+Guyot|title=Raymond Guyot|publisher= The Great Soviet Encyclopedia|date=1979|accessdate=24 October 2014}} He died in Paris, aged 82.