Alain Savary (April 25, 1918 - February 2, 1988) was a French Socialist politician.

In 1940, as soon as France is occupated by the German army, he enlisted in the Resistance. He organized the rallying of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon to the Free French Forces and became its governor. After the war, he participated to the restoring of the Republican State. The Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres in French) were French fighters in World War II, who decided to continue fighting against Axis forces after the surrender of France and German occupation, following the call of General De Gaulle, and the de jure government (Free French Government) of France...

Member of the socialist party SFIO, he was deputy for Saint Pierre et Miquelon from 1944 to 1946 and from 1951 to 1958. In 1956, he is nominated Secretary of State to the Foreign Affairs in Guy Mollet's cabinet, but resigned in due to his opposition to the repressive policy of Mollet in Algerian War. He left the SFIO in 1958, because of the support of the party to De Gaulle's come back and to the new constitution. Sfio, or Safe/Fast I/O, is an I/O library developed by AT&T Research, with several improvements over the ANSI C stdio library. ... Guy Mollet (31 December 1905 - 3 October 1975), French politician, was born in Flers, in Normandy, the son of a textile worker. ... The Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) was a period of guerrilla strikes, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians on both sides, and riots between the French army and colonists in Algeria and the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) and other pro-independence Algerians. ... Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (  listen?) (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. ...

With Pierre Mendès-France, he founded the Autonomous Socialist Party (Parti socialiste autonome or PSA) wich became, in 1960, the Unified Socialist Party (Parti socialiste unifié or PSU). However, he returned in the "old socialist house" when it was replaced by the Socialist Party (Parti socialiste or PS). Pierre Mendès France Pierre Mendès France (Paris, 11 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. ... The Unified Socialist Party (French: Parti Socialiste Unifié, PSU) was a socialist political party in France, founded on April 3, 1960. ... The Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste or PS), which replaced the SFIO in 1969, is the main opposition party in France. ...

Reconciled with Guy Mollet, he succeeded him to the lead of the party in 1969. He promised to begin an "ideological dialogue" with the French Communist Party. Yet, two years later, he was overthrown by François Mitterrand who proposed an alliance with the Communists based on a Common Programme. The French Communist Party (French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. ... (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was a French politician. ...

Deputy for Haute Garonne in 1973, then Minister of National Education in 1981, he resigned three years later, after the failure of his project to limit the financing of the private schools. Haute-Garonne is a département in the southwest of France named after the Garonne river. ...