* 1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.

* 1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.

To this end, Ribbentrop appointed a colleague, Otto Abetz, from the Dienststelle Ambassador to France with instructions to promote the political career of Pierre Laval, who Ribbentrop had decided was the French politician most favourable to Germany.

In November 1942, following Operation Torch, Ribbentrop met with Pierre Laval in Munich.

During the same meeting in East Prussia with Count Ciano, Pierre Laval arrived and promptly agreed to Hitler's and Ribbentrop's demands that he place French police under the command of more radical anti-Semitics and conscript and send hundreds of thousands of French workers to work in Germany's war industry.

The December 1935 Hoare – Laval Pact was an attempt by British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare and French Prime Minister Pierre Laval to end the conflict in Abyssinia by proposing to partition the country into an Italian sector and an Abyssinian sector.

* 1945 – World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.

* January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France.

* October 15 – WWII: Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, is shot to death by a firing squad for treason against France.

* October 15 – Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France ( executed ) ( b. 1883 )

** Holocaust: By order of the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13, 000 – 20, 000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.

* February 3 – WWII: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy France.

* August 27 – WWII – Pierre Laval is shot in an assassination attempt at Versailles, France.

* June 28 – Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France ( d. 1945 )

* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.

It encompasses four archipelagoes: the Thousand Islands chain near Kingston, Ontario ; the Hochelaga Archipelago, including the Island of Montreal and Île Jésus ( Laval ); the Lake St. Pierre Archipelago ( Classified biosphere world reserve by the UNESCO in 2000 ) and the smaller Mingan Archipelago.

In 1887, after visiting Panama, Gauguin spent several months near Saint Pierre in Martinique, in the company of his friend the artist Charles Laval.

Pierre Laval, Pétain's " handman " was an Auvergnat.

In May 1942, his chief Sabatier was named prefect of Aquitaine by Pierre Laval, head of the Vichy government.

When Vichy Premier Pierre Laval formed the Milice, an armed pro-German militia, in February 1943, the father told his son to join, hoping it would put some backbone into him.

In 1887, after visiting Panama, Paul Gauguin spent some months with his friend Charles Laval, also a painter, in a cabin some two kilometers south of Saint Pierre.

* Pierre Laval, the prime minister of France at various times before World War II, and of the Vichy France government

But in November 1935, the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare and the French Prime Minister, Pierre Laval, had secret discussions in which they agreed to concede two-thirds of Abyssinia to Italy.

At the same time he continued to express elements of his longstanding germanophobia by arguing in La Seule France that Frenchmen must not be drawn to the German model and by hosting anti-German conferences and he opposed both the " dissidents " in London and the collaborators in Paris and Vichy ( such as Lucien Rebatet, Robert Brasillach, Pierre Laval, or Marcel Déat ).

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