in place the structure of 'l'Armée secrète" (the secret army) for the 19 departments of the North West of France. In summer 1944 he personally fought with the French Forces of the Interior to liberate the Morlaix region. In August that year, he participated in the arrest of peasant populist and former Vichy official Henry Dorgères. Later career Tanguy-Prigent represented Finistère as a member of the first and second National Constituent Assemblies, and was a deputy for Finistère from 1946 to 1958. He was named Minister of Agriculture by General Charles de Gaulle, holding office from September 1944 to October 1947. He was Minister of Supplies from November 1945 to January 1946. He dissolved the Vichy regime's Peasant Corporation in September 1944, but the unity of agricultural organizations that it had established persisted. He replaced the Corporation with a national union of working farmers rather than landowners, the General Confederation of Agriculture (GCA). In March 1946 the CGA became the Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles (FNSEA). Many of the former Peasant Corporation leaders became leaders of the FNSEA. Tanguy-Prigent was Minister of Veterans and War Victims from February 1956 to June 1957. He was again deputy for Finistère from 1962 to 1967. Tanguy-Prigent died on 20 January 1970 in Morlaix. References Sources 1909 births 1970 deaths People from Finistère Politicians from Brittany French Section of the Workers' International politicians Unified Socialist Party (France) politicians French Ministers of Agriculture French Ministers of Veterans Affairs Members of the 16th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945) Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1946) Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic French military personnel of World War II French Resistance members The Vichy 80 French people of the Algerian War