"The French social security system as we know it today was officially created in 1945, but the idea of the state caring for the sick, injured, and elderly is much older. During the French Revolution, the 1793 version of the Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen included Article 21: "Public relief is a sacred debt. Society owes maintenance to unfortunate citizens, either by procuring work for them or by providing the means of existence for those who are unable to labour.""
"In 1943, one of the architects of French social security, the communist who became post-war minister for labour, Ambroise Croizat, headed up a commission of parliamentarians and doctors to build a first draft of what would become the ordinances on social security. In March 1944, the resistance published a bulletin promising a comprehensive social security plan in the post-war period, and in October 1945 - once the war in Europe was over - they delivered."
France's social security system was officially created in 1945 but builds on older ideas of state care for the sick, injured and elderly dating back to the French Revolution. The 1793 Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen declared public relief a sacred debt and called for maintenance for citizens unable to labour. Early twentieth-century laws introduced workplace accident compensation, while the 1930s saw pension and insurance funds emerge from state, employer, union and religious sources. Wartime destruction and resistance planning led to reform: in 1943 Ambroise Croizat led a commission to draft ordinances, and in October 1945 former Resistance members across political lines enacted the ordinances of October 4th and 19th, creating la sécurité sociale.
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