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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

But when war came, Jouhaux was a Frenchman after all.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1909 Socialist Jouhaux became secretary-general of the C.G.T., and for 30 years he was the biggest man in French labor.

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