- Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
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Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury Prime Minister of France In office
13 June 1957 – 6 November 1957Preceded by Guy Mollet Succeeded by Félix Gaillard Personal details Born 19 August 1914 Died 10 February 1993 (aged 78) Political party Radical Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury (L) meeting Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol during a visit to Israel in 1958Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury (French pronunciation: [moʁis buʁʒɛs monuʁi]; 19 August 1914 Luisant, Eure-et-Loir – 10 February 1993 Paris) was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957.
He is famous, especially, for fulfilling prominent ministerial role in the government during the Suez Crisis.[citation needed]
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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 Preceded by
Jacques ChastellainMinister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism
1950Succeeded by
Antoine PinayPreceded by
—Minister of Armaments
1952Succeeded by
—Preceded by
Antoine PinayMinister of Finance
1953Succeeded by
Edgar FaurePreceded by
Jean-Marie LouvelMinister of Commerce and Industry
1954Succeeded by
Henri UlverPreceded by
Jacques Chaban-Delmasinterim Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism
1954Succeeded by
Jacques Chaban-DelmasPreceded by
Emmanuel TempleMinister of the Armed Forces
1955Succeeded by
Marie Pierre KoenigPreceded by
François MitterrandMinister of the Interior
1955Succeeded by
Edgar FaurePreceded by
Pierre BillotteMinister of National Defence
1956–1957Succeeded by
André MoricePreceded by
Guy MolletPrime Minister of France
1957Succeeded by
Félix GaillardPreceded by
Jean Gilbert-JulesMinister of the Interior
1957–1958Succeeded by
Maurice FaureCategories:- 1914 births
- 1993 deaths
- People from Eure-et-Loir
- Radical Party (France) politicians
- Prime Ministers of France
- Alumni of the École Polytechnique
- People of the Algerian War
- People of the Suez Crisis
- Companions of the Liberation
- French politician stubs
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