Édouard Gaumont

From 1964 to 1974 Edouard was a member of the French Economic and Social Council.

During the third legislature, Edouard Gaumont was appointed full member of the Finance Committee, member of the Press Committee and member of the Justice and Legislation Committee. It is within the Finance Committee that his action is most notable: appointed by his peers to be part of the sub-committee responsible for monitoring and assessing the management of industrial companies and semi-public companies, he was also elected secretary of the Commission on July 17, 1957.

When he requested from his electors, for the legislative elections of January 2, 1956, the renewal of his mandate, Edouard Gaumont did not fail to recall the consistency with which he defended the interests of Guyanese; still wearing the colors of Gaullism, this time under the label of Social Republicans, he obtained in the ballot of January 2, 1956 4,549 votes out of 7,671 votes cast.

During this last legislature of the Fourth Republic, Edouard Gaumont did not take part in the ballot during the investiture of Guy Mollet (January 31, 1956); he votes for special powers in Algeria (March 12, 1956) and against the ratification of the treaties establishing the European Economic Community and Euratom (July 9, 1957). Retained in his department, Edouard Gaumont could not participate in the investiture votes of Pierre Pflimlin (May 13, 1958) and General de Gaulle (June 1, 1958), or in the vote of full powers (June 2, 1958).

But it is his parliamentary activity that requires his attention the most; it focuses primarily on issues relating to the economic and social development of the French overseas territories in general, and Guyana in particular; the most significant of his motions for resolution in this regard is that of June 1, 1954, which seeks the appointment by the National Assembly of a parliamentary commission of inquiry responsible for examining the conditions under which the administration operates in Guyana. prefectural and the various services, public establishments or bodies benefiting from State aid.[1]

He stood in the legislative elections under the label of the Rassemblement du Peuple Français (RPF), on June 17, 1951: with 2,099 votes out of 5,928 votes cast, he stole the only seat to be filled from the socialist Léon Gontran Damas, and between in the National Assembly.

His political activity began in 1948: he was an unsuccessful candidate in January for the partial legislative elections in Guyana, with a view to filling the seat left vacant by the death of René Jadfard; this failure brought him back to his military career, and it was in 1950, when he took temporary leave of his department of origin, that he was promoted to the rank of colonial infantry captain.

With the Liberation, Edouard Gaumont stops his legal activities to embrace the career of the weapons: pupil of the Military school of the Infantry and the tanks of combat, he is at his exit, in 1946, affected at his request in Guyana; his rise in the military hierarchy is rapid, since he was appointed in 1949 commander of the colonial infantry company of Guyana; there, while doing his job as a soldier, he gives lectures and private lessons, and volunteers to lead the cultural activities of the Félix-Eboué home in Cayenne.

He then left for Paris, where he concluded his studies with a doctorate in law, and at the same time prepared the. Mobilized when the war broke out, he spent nearly a year in the army as a second class soldier: after the defeat, Edouard Gaumont briefly resumed his studies, and obtained a license in philosophy: then he enrolled at the end of 1940, as a lawyer at the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal.

Coming from a modest background in Guyana, first a student at the Sisters of Saint-Joseph de Cluny school, then at Cayenne college. After his baccalaureate, it is alone, outside any university structure, that he works on his law degree, by going to Fort-de-France to take the exams. He validated his license at the Faculty of Law of Paris which he obtained in June 1938.

Édouard Gaumont born on June 30, 1915, in Cayenne, French Guiana, died on October 15, 2008, was a French deputy of French Guiana, Lawyer and Infantry Captain. Edouard Gaumont married Josèphe Madeleine Polycarpe with whom he has nine children including renowned professional musicians Eddy, Joëlle and Dominique.