Édouard Joseph Auguste Grinda (20 December 1866 – 28 March 1959) was a French politician best known for The Grinda Report written in 1923Dutton, Paul V.: Origins of the French Welfare State, Cambridge University Press, 2002. and as architect of France's medical insurance law of 1928.Beresford-Smith, Timothy: Creating the welfare state in France, 1880-1940, McGill-Queen's Press, 2003. He was born and died in Nice.
Jobs "Député" (in , or Member of the French National Assembly) for Alpes-Maritimes from 1919 to 1932 Minister of Work and Social Security from 13 December 1930 to January 1931 in Théodore Steeg's government
Family His wife was Augustine Schmitz (d.1965).Bianchini, Roger-Louis: "Les Grinda," L'Express Their son was Jean-Paul Grinda, whose grandson is Thierry Roussel, the father of Athina Onassis Roussel.
His granddaughter, Hélène Grinda (b. 1944), had an illegitimate daughter with Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Alexia Grinda (b. 1967).
Bibliography He wrote Rapport fait au nom de la Commission d'Assurance et de Prévoyance Sociales chargée d'examiner le project de loi sur les assurances (in ). The report was published to the appendix of Procès-verbal of the meeting of January 31, no. 5505. Imprimerie de la Chambre, Paris, 1923.
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