Edgar Faure, French statesman

Edgar Faure (August 18, 1908 - March 30, 1988) was a French statesman. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Faure was born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. He trained as a lawyer in Paris and became a member of the Bar at 27, the youngest lawyer in France to do so at the time. While living in Paris, he became active in politics, and joined the Radical Party. Béziers (Besièrs in Occitan) is a city in Languedoc, in the southwest of France. ... Capital Montpellier Area 27,376 km² Regional President Georges Frêche ( PS) (since 2004) Population   - 2004 estimate   - 1999 census   - Density (Ranked 10th) 2,458,000 2,295,648 90/km² (2004) Arrondissements 14 Cantons 186 Communes 1,545 Départements Aude Gard Hérault Lozère Pyrénées-Orientales... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The Radical Party (Parti Radical or Républicains Radicaux et Radicaux-Socialistes, Radical Republicans and Radical Socialists), was a major French political party of the early to mid 20th century, originally considered radical due to its anti-clericalism. ...

During the German occupation of World War II, he joined the Resistance, and in 1942 fled to Charles de Gaulle’s headquarters in Algiers, where de Gaulle made him head of the Provisional Government's legislative department. At the end of the war he served as French counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... The Maquis were the dominantly rural guerrilla bands of Belgian and French Resistance. ... 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. ... Algiers (Fr. ... The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust. ...

In 1946, he was elected to parlement as a Radical party member. While the popularity of his Radical party declined to less than 10 per cent of the total vote, none of the other parties were able to gain a clear majority. As such, early on, Faure’s party often played a disproportionately important role in the formation of French governments. Faure was a leader of the more conservative wing of the party, opposing the party's left under Pierre Mendès-France. Faure's views changed with time and he became a supporter of de Gaulle’s party who sent him on an unofficial mission to the People's Republic of China in 1963. Pierre Mendès-France Pierre Mendès-France (10 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. ...

He was a member of the National Assembly for the Jura Department from 1946 to 1958 and for the Doubs Department from 1967 to 1980 when he again became Senator. A radical during the Fourth Republic, he ended as a Gaullist during the Fifth Republic. He was a Senator from 1959 to 1967 for the Jura and again in 1980 for the Doubs.

On the regional, departemental and local levels, Edgar FAURE was mayor of Port-Lesney (Jura) from 1947 to 1971 et from 1983 to 1988 and mayor of Pontarlier from 1971 to 1977, president of the General Council of the Jura Department from 1949 to 1967, then member of the General Council of the Doubs Department from 1967 to 1979, president of the regional council of the Franche-Comté province from 1974 to 1981 et from 1982 to 1988.

During his career, Edgar Faure served as:

• Minister of Finance (1950-51);
• Prime Minister - (1952);
• Foreign Minister - (1955);
• Prime Minister - (1955-56) one of the big four of the Geneva Conference with Eisenhower, Bulganin and Eden;
• Minister of Agriculture - (1966);
• Minister of Education - (1968);
• Minister of Social Affairs - (1969);
• President of the National Assembly (1973-79).

In 1978 he became a Member of the Académie française. He has published the following books: The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ...

• Le serpent et la tortue (les problèmes de la Chine populaire, Juillard, 1957
• La disgrâce de Turgot, Gallimard, 1961
• La capitation de Dioclétien, Sirey 1961
• Prévoir le présent, Gallimard, 1966
• L'éducation nationale et la participation, Plon, 1968
• Philosophie d'une réforme, Plon, 1969
• L'âme du combat, Fayard, 1969
• Ce que je crois, Grasset, 1971
• Pour un nouveau contrat social, Seuil, 1973
• Au-delà du dialogue avec Philippe Sollers, Balland, 1977
• La banqueroute de Law, Gallimard, 1977
• La philosophie de Karl Popper et la société politique d'ouverture, Firmin Didot, 1981
• Pascal: le procès des provinciales, Firmin Didot, 1930
• Le pétrole dans la paix et dans la guerre, Nouvelle revue critique 1938
• Mémoires I, "Avoir toujours raison, c'est un grand tort", Plon, 1982
• Mémoires II, "Si tel doit être mon destin ce soir", Plon, 1984
• Discours prononcé pour la réception de Senghor à l'Académie française, le 29 mars 1984

Edgar Faure was interred in Cimetière de Passy, Paris, France. The Cimetière de Passy is a famous cemetery located in 2, rue du Commandant SchÅ“lsing, in the quarter of Passy in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

Faure's First Ministry, 20 January - 8 March 1952

• Edgar Faure - President of the Council and Minister of Finance
• Georges Bidault - Vice President of the Council and Minister of National Defense
• Henri Queuille - Vice President of the Council
• Robert Schuman - Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Pierre Pflimlin - Minister for the Council of Europe
• Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury - Minister of Armaments
• Charles Brune - Minister of the Interior
• Robert Buron - Minister of Economic Affairs and Information
• Pierre Courant - Minister of Budget
• Jean-Marie Louvel - Minister of Industry and Energy
• Paul Bacon - Minister of Labour and Social Security
• Léon Martinaud-Deplat - Minister of Justice
• André Morice - Minister of Merchant Marine
• Pierre-Olivier Lapie - Minister of National Education
• Emmanuel Temple - Minister of Veterans and War Victims
• Camille Laurens - Minister of Agriculture
• Louis Jacquinot - Minister of Overseas France
• Antoine Pinay - Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
• Paul Ribeyre - Minister of Public Health and Population
• Eugène Claudius-Petit - Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning
• Roger Duchet - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
• Édouard Bonnefous - Minister of Commerce
• Jean Letourneau - Minister of Partner States
• Joseph Laniel - Minister of State
• François Mitterrand - Minister of State

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Faure's Second Ministry, 23 February 1955 - 1 February 1956

• Edgar Faure - President of the Council
• Antoine Pinay - Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Pierre Koenig - Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces
• Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury - Minister of the Interior
• Pierre Pflimlin - Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
• André Morice - Minister of Commerce and Industry
• Paul Bacon - Minister of Labour and Social Security
• Robert Schuman - Minister of Justice
• Paul Antier - Minister of Merchant Marine
• Jean Berthoin - Minister of National Education
• Raymond Triboulet - Minister of Veterans and War Victims
• Jean Sourbet - Minister of Agriculture
• Pierre-Henri Teitgen - Minister of Overseas France
• Édouard Corniglion-Molinier - Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
• Bernard Lafay - Minister of Public Health and Population
• Roger Duchet - Minister of Reconstruction and Housing
• Édouard Bonnefous - Minister of Posts
• Pierre July - Minister of Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs

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• 6 October 1955 - Pierre Billotte succeeds Koenig as Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces. Vincent Badie succeeds Triboulet as Minister of Veterans and War Victims.
• 20 October 1955 - Pierre July leaves the Cabinet and the office of Minister of Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs is abolished.
• 1 December 1955 - Edgar Faure succeeds Bourgès-Maunoury as interim Minister of the Interior.

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