Edgar Faure

Edgar Faure ( born August 18, 1908 in Béziers, † 30 March 1988, Paris) was a French politician.

He studied law in Paris and was at age 21 the youngest lawyer at this time in France. His involvement in politics, he raced in the ranks of the left bourgeois anticlerical Radical Party ( Parti républicain, radical et radical - Socialiste ), the leading party of the Third Republic, which provided the majority of the Prime Minister 1900-1940.

During the Second World War and the German occupation itself Faure joined the Resistance and fled in 1942 to Algiers to the headquarters of General Charles de Gaulle, who législatif him chief of the service of the government provisoire de la République Française ( GPRF ) made . In 1945 he became the French prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.

1946 Faure was elected as a member of the Parti radical in the Constituent Assembly of the Fourth Republic. After the formation of a tripartite coalition of Socialists ( SFIO ), Communists (PCF ) and the Christian- democratic oriented " people Republican Movement " ( MRP), the radicals were initially in an outsider position. When the Communists were in 1947 forced out of the government, the Radicals, a clear majority could often play a disproportionately important role in the formation of the French governments despite declining popularity and a vote share of less than 10 percent, since none of the other groups was able, to obtain.

Faure was the leader of the conservative wing of the party, the opposite was the left wing led by Pierre Mendès -France. Edgar Faure in 1952 and 1955 to 1956 two times Prime Minister ( Président du Conseil ). In everyday political Faure called " la girouette " ( the weather vane ). He hit the end of 1955 the President René Coty, the dissolution of the National Assembly and entered an electoral alliance with the right, after which he was expelled at the instigation of Mendès -France from the Radical Party, which formed a coalition with the Socialists under Guy Mollet after the elections.

By the time he approached politically de Gaulle, who on an unofficial mission to the People's Republic of China in 1963 sent him to prepare the establishment of diplomatic relations between Paris and Beijing 1964. As a Radical in the Fourth Republic, he ended up as a Gaullist in 1958 established the Fifth. In 1966 he was Minister of Agriculture, after the May riots in 1968, General de Gaulle confided to him the difficult post of Minister of Education. From 1973 to 1978 held the office of President Faure of the National Assembly.

Faure died at the age of 79 years in Paris and was buried there in the Cimetière de Passy.

Political mandates

Minister of Finance ( 1950-51 )
Prime Minister (1952 )
Secretary of State (1955 )
Prime Minister ( 1955-56 ) - at the Geneva conference, he was one of the big four next to Eisenhower, Bulganin and Eden
Minister of Agriculture (1966 )
Minister of Education (1968 )
Minister of Social Affairs (1969 )
President of the National Assembly ( 1973-78 )

In 1978 he became a member of the Académie française. He wrote political books but also crime novels under the pseudonym E. Sanday.

Writings

Le Serpent et la tortue, les problèmes de la Chine populaire, Juillard, 1957
La Disgrace de Turgot, Gallimard, 1961
La capitation de Dioclétien, Sirey 1961
Prévoir le présent, Gallimard, 1966
L' éducation nationale et la participation, Plon, 1968
Philosophy 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 route de banque Law, Gallimard, 1977
La philosophie de la société politique Karl Popper et d' ouverture, Firmin Didot, 1981
Pascal: le procès of provinciales, Firmin Didot, 1930
Le dans la paix et pétrole dans la guerre, Nouvelle revue critique 1938
I Mémoires, " avoir toujours raison, c'est un grand tort", Plon, 1982
Mémoires II, " Si doit être mon destin tel ce soir ", Plon, 1984
Prononcé Discours pour la réception de Senghor à l' Académie française, le 29 mars 1984

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