Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury | |
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76th Prime Minister of France | |
In office 13 June 1957 – 6 November 1957 | |
Preceded by | Guy Mollet |
Succeeded by | Félix Gaillard |
Personal details | |
Born | Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury 19 August 1914 |
Died | 10 February 1993(1993-02-10) (aged 78) |
Political party | Radical |
Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury (French pronunciation: [moʁis buʁʒɛs monuʁi]; 19 August 1914, in Luisant, Eure-et-Loir – 10 February 1993, in Paris) was a French Radical politician who served as the Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957.
He is famous, especially, for fulfilling a prominent ministerial role in the government during the Suez Crisis.[citation needed]
Contents
1 Prime minister
2 Controversy
3 Death
4 Bourgès-Maunoury's Ministry, 13 June – 6 November 1957
5 References
Prime minister
He became Prime Minister in June 1957.
While he was Prime Minister, the French Government achieved Parliamentary ratification of the Treaty of Rome.
He was succeeded as Prime Minister in November 1957 by Félix Gaillard.
Controversy
As minister of Interior, he nominated the controversial Maurice Papon at the head of the Prefecture of Police in 1958, functions which he kept during the 1961 Paris massacre.
Death
He died in Paris in 1993.[citation needed]
Bourgès-Maunoury's Ministry, 13 June – 6 November 1957
- Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – President of the Council
Christian Pineau – Minister of Foreign Affairs
André Morice – Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces
Jean Gilbert-Jules – Minister of the Interior
Félix Gaillard – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
Édouard Corniglion-Molinier – Minister of Justice
René Billères – Minister of National Education, Youth, and Sports
André Dulin – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
Gérard Jaquet – Minister of Overseas France
Édouard Bonnefous – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
Albert Gazier – Minister of Social Affairs
Max Lejeune – Minister of Sahara
Félix Houphouët-Boigny – Minister of State
Political offices | ||
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Preceded by Jacques Chastellain | Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism 1950 | Succeeded by Antoine Pinay |
Preceded by — | Minister of Armaments 1952 | Succeeded by — |
Preceded by Antoine Pinay | Minister of Finance 1953 | Succeeded by Edgar Faure |
Preceded by Jean-Marie Louvel | Minister of Commerce and Industry 1954 | Succeeded by Henri Ulver |
Preceded by Jacques Chaban-Delmas | interim Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism 1954 | Succeeded by Jacques Chaban-Delmas |
Preceded by Emmanuel Temple | Minister of the Armed Forces 1955 | Succeeded by Marie Pierre Koenig |
Preceded by François Mitterrand | Minister of the Interior 1955 | Succeeded by Edgar Faure |
Preceded by Pierre Billotte | Minister of National Defence 1956–1957 | Succeeded by André Morice |
Preceded by Guy Mollet | Prime Minister of France 1957 | Succeeded by Félix Gaillard |
Preceded by Jean Gilbert-Jules | Minister of the Interior 1957–1958 | Succeeded by Maurice Faure |
References
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