Maurice Couve de Murville
Maurice Couve de Murville ( born January 24, 1907 in Reims, † December 24, 1999 in Paris) was a French conservative politician.
Life
Maurice Couve de Murville, son of an old Protestant family, studied law in Paris and devoted himself at an early age on the policy. In 1930 he participated in the panel to review the financial position.
From 1937 to 1940 he was Director of the Foreign Department of the Treasury.
After the defeat of 1940 Maurice Couve de Murville belonged to the Armistice Commission in Wiesbaden. In the Vichy regime, he was Director of External Finance and Monetary Economics.
After landing, the Anglo-Americans in North Africa of November 1942 Maurice Couve de Murville changed in March 1943, the sides. He was one of the few officials of the Vichy government, which turned out in Algiers in the service of General Henri Giraud. On 7 June 1943 he was appointed treasurer of the French Committee of National Liberation ( CFLN ).
In February 1945 he became a member of the provisional government of General de Gaulle with the rank of Ambassador in Italy. In the following years he served his country for another ambassadorship, as in Cairo (1950-1954), NATO (1954 ), in Washington ( 1955-1956 ) and in Bonn ( 1956-1958 ).
With reasoning of the Fifth Republic by Charles de Gaulle was Maurice Couve de Murville 1958 Foreign Minister and held this office until 1968. He was then at the suggestion of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou for a year before he devoted himself to old age politics in the National Assembly and later in the Senate.
The same cousin of the Protestants, Maurice Couve de Murville (1929-2007), was a Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham.
Political offices
Cabinet Couve de Murville
The Cabinet Couve de Murville that officiated on 10 July 1968 to 20 June 1969 consisted of the following persons:
Quotes
- From a speech:
" Knowing the right time is half the success. "
- From the book Une politique étrangère 1958-1969:
" The will cause that one controls his own fate, as best you can, and you can do better than is commonly might think. One should neither internal nor external impressions can be influenced and not - quite simply - by the day's events. It is necessary to operate a deliberate, carefully planned policy that you shall itself determine. To be influenced in his politics, that is the way to be safe before thinking, before any action - and these are the only negatives. "
- Une politique étrangère 1958-1969 (German Foreign Policy 1958-1969 ), 1971
- Le monde en face (Eng. The world vis -à-vis ), 1989