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Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury

Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury

French Prime Minister (1914–1993)

Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis buʁʒɛs monuʁi, moʁ-]; 19 August 1914 – 10 February 1993) was a French Radical politician who served as the Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957.[1]

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Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury (L) meeting Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol during a visit to Israel in 1958

Bourgès-Maunoury was born in Luisant, Eure-et-Loir. He is best known for fulfilling a prominent ministerial role in the government during the 1956 Suez Crisis.[2]: 49–50 

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, which led to the creation of the European Economic Community. He was succeeded as Prime Minister in November 1957 by Félix Gaillard.[3]

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.[3] [citation needed]

Bourgès-Maunoury's Ministry, 13 June – 6 November 1957

References

  1. [1]
    Heisler, Mark E. (29 June 1959). "Ex French Premier Predicts Arabs, Israel to Live in Peace". Press of Atlantic City. p. 2. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  2. [2]
    Crosbie, Sylvia Kowitt (8 March 2015). A Tacit Alliance: France and Israel from Suez to the Six Day War. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-6795-0.
  3. [3]
    Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. pp. 291–292. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
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