Editing Pierre Mendès France (section)

==Early life==
Mendès France was born on 11 January 1907 in Paris, the son of a textile merchant from [[Limoges]].<ref name=BD>{{cite book|title=Political Leaders of Contemporary Western Europe: A Biographical Dictionary|year=1995|editor=David Wilsford|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]|chapter=PIERRE MENDÈS-FRANCE|isbn=9780313286230 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8iJNlWcdIUC}}</ref> He was descended from [[Portuguese Jews]] who settled in France in the 16th century.<ref name=BD/> He studied at the [[École des sciences politiques]] and the [[Faculty of Law of Paris]], graduating with a doctorate in law and becoming the youngest member of the Paris [[bar association]] in 1926, at age 19.<ref name=BD/> In 1924, Mendès France joined the [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]], the traditional party of the French middle-class centre-left (not to be confused with the mainstream [[SFIO]], often called the Socialist Party). He married Lili Cicurel, the niece of [[Salvator Cicurel]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1927-store-owner-killed-in-cairo-1.5328437 |title=1927: Owner of Egypt's Grandest Store Brutally Murdered in Cairo |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=14 June 2018 |archive-date=14 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614094400/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1927-store-owner-killed-in-cairo-1.5328437 |url-status=live }}</ref>