Marc Rucart
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Marc Émile Rucart was a French journalist and Radical politician who was a deputy from 1928 to 1942.
He alternated between the posts of Minister of Justice and Minister of Health from 1936 to 1940.
Although he was not pro-feminist he introduced changes that gave greater opportunity to women.
He was anti-racist, and after the initial defeat of France in World War II he did not support the Vichy government, but participated in the National Council of the Resistance and then in the first Provisional Consultative Assembly .
After the war he was a senator from 1947 to 1958.
Rucart in 1933
National Council of the Resistance
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The National Council of the Resistance directed and coordinated the different movements of the French Resistance during World War II: the press, trade unions and political parties hostile to the Vichy regime, starting from mid-1943.
Members of the CNR after the Liberation of Paris, September 1944. From left to right: Jacques Debû-Bridel (FR), Pierre Villon (FN), Gaston Tessier (CFTC), Robert Chambeiron (deputy secretary-general), Pascal Copeau (Libération-Sud), Joseph Laniel (AD), Jacques Lecomte-Boinet (CDLR), Georges Bidault (president), André Mutter, Henri Ribière (Libération-Nord), Daniel Mayer (SFIO), Jean-Pierre Lévy (Franc-Tireur), Paul Bastid (PR), Auguste Gillot (PCF), Pierre Meunier (secretary-general) and
Charles de Gaulle, circa 1942
Drawing of Jean Moulin based on iconic photo with hat and scarf, cross of Lorraine in background