Maurice Faure
Maurice Faure ( [ fɔʀ ], born January 2, 1922 in Azerat, Dordogne, † March 6, 2014 in Cahors, Lot département ) was a French politician. He was a member of the French resistance movement and minister in various French governments.
Life
Faure was the son of a teacher and a school principal. He attended high school in Perigueux and then studied law, history and geography in Bordeaux and Toulouse. He received a doctorate in law. and put the state examination in the subjects of history and geography. Faure was afterwards teacher at both the high school and at the Institute of Political Studies in Toulouse. Following the military defeat of France by the German Reich Faure joined the French Resistance and participated actively in the resistivity.
After the war, Faure became a member of the Radical Party. From 1947 to 1951 he had various functions in ministries led by the Radical governments, such as Personal Secretary ( chef de cabinet ) with Maurice Bourgès - Maunoury. In 1951 he was age 29, the then youngest member of the National Assembly and supported the accession of France to the European Community for Coal and Steel. From 1953 to 1955 he was General Secretary of the party and became the opponent of Pierre Mendès France. 1965 to 1990 he was mayor of Cahors. In 1973, he joined the Parti radical de gauche, a left spin-off of the Radical Party, at, for which he sat until 1981 in the National Assembly. At the same time, he was from 1953 to 1981 Member of the European Parliament. From 1983 to 1988 Faure served as a senator for the département of Lot.
Faure was several times minister in May 1958, he was four days, the youngest Minister of the Interior ( short tenures of governments were often in the Fourth Republic ). 30 years later, 1988/89 he was under Michel Rocard Minister of Housing.
From 1989 to 1998 Faure was a member of the French Constitutional Court.
Maurice Faure played a key role in the initial phase of the European Community. As Secretary of State under Secretary of State Christian Pineau signed Faure 1957, the Treaty of Rome for France. In 2007 he was appointed last but not least for this reason, as President of the Honorary Committee for the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome.