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Jouhaux

American  
[zhoo-oh] / ʒuˈoʊ /

noun

  1. Léon 1879–1954, French labor leader and politician: Nobel Peace Prize 1951.


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Art was creeping up from the not-too-distant Haut Marais, including Galerie Chantal Crousel’s second Parisian exhibition space on the Rue Léon Jouhaux.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2011

Now that the Frachon gang has lost so much face, Jouhaux hopes that he and other non-Communists can regain control of the C.G.T.'s executive structure at the next elections, scheduled for September 1948.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the sixth floor of the C.G.T. building, one floor above the scene of Frachon's ordeal, sat a 68-year-old, paunchy, pouchy man named Leon Jouhaux.

From Time Magazine Archive

They set up the Force Ouvri�re, with Jouhaux as president, as an actively anti-Communist trade union movement.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the support of France's L�on Jouhaux and Mexico's Vicente LombardoToledano, the conference elected Louis Saillant, French left-wing Resistance leader, as secretary-general to balance Citrine.

From Time Magazine Archive