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Henri Queuille
Henri Queuille (; 31 March 1884 – 15 June 1970) was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister. Governments First ministry (11 September 1948 – 28 October 1949) * Henri Queuille – President of the Council and Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs * André Marie – Vice President of the Council and Minister of Justice *Robert Schuman – Minister of Foreign Affairs *Paul Ramadier – Minister of National Defense * Jules Moch – Minister of the Interior * Robert Lacoste – Minister of Commerce and Industry * Daniel Mayer – Minister of Labour and Social Security * André Colin – Minister of Merchant Marine *Yvon Delbos – Minister of National Education * Robert Bétolaud – Minister of Veterans and War Victims * Pierre Pflimlin – Minister of Agriculture * Paul Coste-Floret – Minister of Overseas France *Christian Pineau – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Touri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of France
The prime minister of France (), officially the prime minister of the French Republic (''Premier ministre de la République française''), is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of its Council of Ministers. The prime minister is the holder of the second-highest office in France, after the president of France. The president, who appoints but cannot dismiss the prime minister, can request resignation. The Government of France, including the prime minister, can be dismissed by the National Assembly. Upon appointment, the prime minister proposes a list of ministers to the president. Decrees and decisions signed by the prime minister, like almost all executive decisions, are subject to the oversight of the administrative court system. Some decrees are taken after advice from the Council of State (), over which the prime minister is entitled to preside. Ministers defend the programmes of their ministries to the prime minister, who makes budgetary choices. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Colin
André Colin (19 January 1910 – 29 August 1978) was a French politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1945 to 1958, and as a member of the French Senate from 1959 to 1978, representing Finistère Finistère (, ; ) is a Departments of France, department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. Its prefecture is Quimper and its largest city is Brest, France, Brest. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090. References 1910 births 1978 deaths Politicians from Brest, France French Roman Catholics[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Mayer
René Mayer (; 4 May 189513 December 1972) was a French Radical politician of the Fourth Republic who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1953. Mayer was born and died in Paris. In 1939-1940 he was an associate of Jean Monnet in London and later succeeded Monnet as head of the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg, leading the Mayer Authority from 1955 to 1958. He was France's third Prime Minister of Jewish descent, after Alexandre Millerand and Léon Blum. Mayer's Ministry, 8 January – 28 June 1953 *René Mayer – President of the Council * Henri Queuille – Vice President of the Council * Georges Bidault – Minister of Foreign Affairs *René Pleven – Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces * Charles Brune – Minister of the Interior * Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – Minister of Finance * Robert Buron – Minister of Economic Affairs * Jean Moreau – Minister of Budget * Jean-Marie Louvel – Minister of Industry and Energy * Paul Bacon – Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bacon (politician)
Paul Bacon (1 November 1907 – 6 December 1999) was a French politician. Biography Bacon was born in Paris. During World War II, he was active in the French Resistance, specifically with the MLN. He was a member of Georges Bidault's National Liberation Movement, and distributed a manifesto about trade unionism in December 1940. Bacon was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943. After the war, Bacon continued his political career. A member of the Christian Democratic Popular Republican Movement (MRP), he was Member of the two National Constituent Assemblies (1945–46) and then of the National Assembly from 1946 to 1958 representing the Seine Department. He was Secretary of state in the prime minister's office in 1959-1960, Minister of Labour and Social security (with some interruptions during the cabinets of Pinay and of Mendès France) from 1950 to 1956 and again in 1957-1959. He was Minister of Labour in De Gaulle, Debré and Pompidou governments from 1958 to 1962. With ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie Louvel
Jean-Marie Louvel (; 1 July 1900 – 13 June 1970) was a French engineer and politician. He was born in La Ferté-Macé and died in Caen Caen (; ; ) is a Communes of France, commune inland from the northwestern coast of France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Calvados (department), Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inha .... References 1900 births 1970 deaths People from La Ferté Macé Politicians from Normandy Popular Republican Movement politicians Ministers of commerce and industry of France Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945) Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1946) Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic French senators of the Fifth Republic Senators of Calvados (department) Mayors of Caen 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Faure
Edgar Jean Faure (; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.Edgar Faure . Encyclopædia Britannica Prior to his election to the for Jura under the Fourth Republic in |
Maurice Petsche
Maurice may refer to: *Maurice (name), a given name and surname, including a list of people with the name Places * or Mauritius, an island country in the Indian Ocean *Maurice, Iowa, a city *Maurice, Louisiana, a village *Maurice River, a tributary of the Delaware River in New Jersey Other uses * ''Maurice'' (2015 film), a Canadian short drama film * Maurice (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse * ''Maurice'' (novel), a 1913 novel by E. M. Forster, published in 1971 ** ''Maurice'' (1987 film), a British film based on the novel * ''Maurice'' (Shelley), a children's story by Mary Shelley *Maurice, a character from the Madagascar ''franchise'' *Maurices, an American retail clothing chain *Maurice or Maryse, a type of cooking spatula See also *Church of Saint Maurice (other) * *Maurice Debate, a 1918 debate in the British House of Commons *Maurice Lacroix, Swiss manufacturer of mechanical timepieces, clocks, and watches *Mauricie, Quebec, Canada *Moritz (other) *Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lecourt
Robert Lecourt (19 September 1908 – 9 August 2004) was a French politician and lawyer, judge and the fourth President of the European Court of Justice. He was born in Pavilly and died in Boulogne-Billancourt. Significantly, in his role as a judge at European Court of Justice, he gave the landmark decision in the case of ''Costa v ENEL'', establishing the supremacy of EU law over the law of member states. Biography After studying at the Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle college in Rouen, he studied law at the University of Rouen and became a lawyer in Rouen and at the Court of Appeal of Paris in 1932. He was president of the Youth People's Democratic Party in 1936, and a lieutenant at the Fort de Saint-Cyr in 1939, whereafter he became actively involved in the French Resistance and a member of the steering committee of the Resistance movement. In 1958, he was elected in the first constituency of the Hautes-Alpes. A member of two national constituent assemblies, he was elected from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Claudius-Petit
Eugène Claudius-Petit (1907–1989) was a French politician. He participated in many governments under the Fourth Republic and was a proponent of Firminy Vert. He later added his pseudonym from the Resistance, "Claudius", to his name. Early life and career He was born on 11 May 1907 in Angers, and died on 24 October 1989 in Paris. The son of a railway worker, he attended primary school in his hometown and then became an apprentice and made his tour of France as a journeyman. He worked for a cabinetmaker in Paris and then joined the Rambault Furniture Company in Angers. He took courses in the hopes of becoming an art teacher. He later became anarchist in his political views and campaigned briefly in the libertarian movement. He also hosted a local union CGTU then joined after a meeting with Marc Sangnier. He joined the French Resistance under the name Claudius. In 1942, he was part of the executive committee of Free Marksman in which Peter Degon later joined. In 1943 he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Schneiter
François Charles Pierre Schneiter (13 May 1905 – 19 March 1979) was a French politician. Biography Pierre Schneiter was born in Reims as the elder son of Charles Albert Schneiter, a wine broker, and Jeanne Marie Alice Sart. Charles Schneiter's father was a watchmaker from Bern, whose ancestors had come from Bavaria. Pierre's only sibling, Marie François André Schneiter, was born in 1914. The brothers followed their father into the wine trade. Pierre married Marguerite Marie Thérèse Fandre in 1931. Their son Jean-Louis (born 1933) was mayor of Reims until 2008. Both Schneiter brothers were active in the French Resistance during the Second World War. André was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and executed at Tournes on 29 August 1944. He is cited in the private papers of U.S. Army ETO Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee as "Sousprefect at Reims" in December 1944. In 1946 Pierre Schneiter was elected as a candidate for the Popular Republican Movement to represe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Pineau
Christian Pineau (; 14 October 1904 – 5 April 1995) was a noted French Resistance fighter, who later served an important term as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 through 1958. Life and career Pineau was born in 1904 in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France. His father was a colonel in the French Army died when he was a young child. His mother married again to the French playwright Jean Giraudoux. Later, Christian Pineau would say that it was Giraudoux who gave him his love of writing. He was educated at the École alsacienne in Paris and graduated with degrees in law and in political science. In 1931 he joined the staff of the Bank of France, and later worked for the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. In 1937 he founded the journal '' Banque et Bourse''. A World War II French Resistance The French Resistance ( ) was a collection of groups that fought the German military administration in occupied France during World War II, Nazi occupation and the Collaboratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Coste-Floret
Paul Coste-Floret (9 April 1911 – 27 August 1979) was a French politician. He was born and died in Montpellier, France. Career Coste-Floret was originally an academic, becoming Doctor of Law in 1935 and teaching law at the University of Algiers. During the Second World War, Coste-Floret was active in the French Resistance. He also advised André Philip and François de Menthon, ministers in the Free French provisional government. After the war Coste-Floret was an assistant prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. He was elected as a '' député'' to the Assemblée Nationale in 1946 as a member of the '' Mouvement Républicain Populaire'', for the department of Hérault, and served until 1958. Coste-Floret supported the political return of General de Gaulle and was a member of the Constitutional Consultative Committee which prepared the Constitution of 1958. He was re-elected ''député'' of the MRP in 1958, and served with the centrist group until 1967. He was nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
