LEO LAGRANGE FRENCH / ORGANIZER OF 1936 BARCELONA PEOPLE'S OLYMPIAD /SPORT MEDAL
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Obverse : bust of leo LAGRANGE under legend "les grandes figures du sport"; engraved by Raymond PELLETIER Reverse : "PREMIER MINISTRE FRANCAIS DES SPORTS ET LOISIRS / PIONNIER DE L'EDUCATION PHYSIQUE ET DU SPORT" Dimensions : 90 x 53 mm or 3,57 x 2,1 inches. Weight : 211 g or 7,4 oz. Bronze. Scarce medal. Léo Lagrange (28 November 1900, in Bourg ( Gironde ) – 9 June 1940, in Évergnicourt ) was a French Under-Secretary of State for Sports and for the Organisation of Leisure during the Popular Front (1936-1938). A member of the Éclaireurs de France scouting association during his youth, he joined the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO, socialist party) after the split at the Tours party congress in 1920 and wrote articles in Populaire (Popular), the press organ of the SFIO. Elected official appointed in 1932 at the time of the second Coalition of the left , he was then named under-secretary of State in the Popular Front government of Léon Blum . He participated in the organisation of the People's Olympiad in Barcelona, organized to counter the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin which were used as a propaganda instrument of Nazism .After having left the under-secretary's department, Léo Lagrante then became president of the lay Committee of the youth hostels. With the 1939 declaration of war, although a deputy, he voluntarily
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