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RARE SIGNED PHOTO OF EDOUARD DALADIER.RARE
(1884 – 1970) French ‘radical’ politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of World War II. Daladier was a signatory to the disastrous Munich Pact. 4.25 x 6 in. sepia, a photo postcard showing him from the chest, up, signed across his chest lightly in blue ink. Accompanied by a Hoffman postcard, 5.5 x 3.5 in. b/w, depicting the Daladier signing the Munich Pact. Two pieces, EXC.

Édouard Daladier (French: 18 June 1884 – 10 October 1970) was a French Radical-Socialist (centre-left) politician, and the Prime Minister of France who signed the Munich Agreement before the outbreak of World War II.

After the Fall of France, Daladier was tried for treason by the Vichy government during the Riom Trial and imprisoned first in Fort du Portalet, then in Buchenwald concentration camp, and finally in Itter Castle. After the Battle of Castle Itter, Daladier resumed his political career as a member of the French Chamber of Deputies from 1946 to 1958. He died in Paris in 1970.