Virgile Barel

{{Short description|French politician (1889–1979)}}

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| birth_date = 17 December 1889

| birth_place = Drap, Alpes-Maritimes, France

| death_date = {{death-date and age|7 November 1979|17 December 1889}}

| death_place = Nice, France

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| party = French Communist Party

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Virgile Barel (1889–1979) was a French Communist politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1936 to 1940, from 1945 to 1951, from 1956 to 1958, and from 1967 to 1973.{{cite web|title=Joseph dit Virgile Barel|url=http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/%28num_dept%29/405|website=National Assembly|accessdate=May 6, 2016}} The Boulevard Virgile Barel in the Saint Roch neighbourhood of Nice was named in his honour.{{cite journal|last1=Charvin|first1=Robert|title=Un Virgile Barel|journal=Cahiers de la Méditerranée|date=1997|volume=55|issue=1|pages=43–59|doi=10.3406/camed.1997.1199 |url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/camed_0395-9317_1997_num_55_1_1199|accessdate=May 6, 2016}}