Adrien Pressemane
Adrien Pressemane was a French politician and journalist. He was the chief editor of Le Populaire du Centre.
Work
Pressemane worked as a porcelain painter in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat before serving in Parliament for the local district. A general councillor of Haute-Vienne, elected in the canton of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, the mayor of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, as well as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, he was the leader of a pacifist trend during World War I.A Guesdist, he worked with Guesde in the French Workers' Party. He teamed up with Léon Betoulle on issues related to the success of French [Section of the Workers' International]. He tried to avoid the collapse of the SFIO at the 1920 Tours Congress, but the aftermath was the creation of the French [Communist Party]. His speech at the 2nd [World Congress of the Comintern] of 1920 demonstrated his lack of commonality with the Third International.