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Edgar-Jean-Vincent-Barthélemy Faure
b. 18 Aug 1908, Béziers, Hérault
d. 30 Mar 1988, Paris |
| Title: |
Président du Conseil des ministres (President of the Council of Ministers) |
| Term: |
20 Jan 1952 - 8 Mar 1952 |
| Chronology: |
18 Jan 1952,
endorsed by the vote of investiture, session of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), Palais-Bourbon, Paris [1][2] |
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20 Jan 1952,
appointed on the list of members of the Council of Ministers, decree of the President of the Republic [3] |
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8 Mar 1952,
ceased to exercise the functions of office upon the appointment of a successor [4] |
| Term: |
23 Feb 1955 - 1 Feb 1956 |
| Chronology: |
23 Feb 1955,
endorsed by the vote of confidence, session of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), Palais-Bourbon, Paris [5] |
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23 Feb 1955,
appointed on the list of members of the Council of Ministers, decree of the President of the Republic [6] |
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1 Feb 1956,
ceased to exercise the functions of office upon the appointment of a successor [7] |
| Names/titles: |
Literary pseudonym: Edgar Sanday |
| Biography: |
| Son of an army doctor; attended middle schools in Verdun and Narbonne; completed secondary education in the lyceums of Janson de Sailly and Voltaire in Paris; graduated from the School of Eastern Languages with a law degree (licence en droit) and a diploma in Russian; was admitted to the bar in Paris (1929), becoming the youngest lawyer in France at the time; joined the Radical Party (Parti Radical); during the Vichy regime, he fled to Tunisia and then to Algeria (1942); headed the legislative services of the presidency of the French Committee for National Liberation; served as deputy secretary-general of the Provisional Government in Algiers (1944); after the liberation, he worked with Pierre Mendès-France at the economy ministry; attended the Nuremberg trials as the French counsel for the prosecution; unsuccessfully contested the seat in the first (1945-1946) and second (1946) Assemblée nationale constituante (Constituent National Assembly); elected on the radical list to the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) as a deputy for Jura (1946-1958), chaired the parliamentary committee for foreign affairs (1952-1953); served as mayor of Port-Lesney, Jura (1947-1970, 1983-1988); appointed secretary of state for finances (13 Feb 1949 - 2 Jul 1950); councilor general of the canton of Villers-Faylay (from 1949); president of the general council of Jura (1949-1967); held a number of ministerial posts during the Fourth Republic; minister of budget (2 Jul 1950 - 11 Aug 1951), minister of justice (11 Aug 1951 - 20 Jan 1952), minister of finance (20 Jan 1952 - 8 Mar 1952), minister of finance and economic affairs (28 Jun 1953 - 19 Jun 1954), minister of finance, economic affairs and planning (19 Jun 1954 - 20 Jan 1955, 14 May 1958 - 1 Jun 1958), minister of foreign affairs (20 Jan 1955 - 23 Feb 1955); two times served as President of the Council of Ministers (20 Jan 1952 - 8 Mar 1952, 23 Feb 1955 - 1 Feb 1956); during his second term as head of government, he obtained special economic powers to deal with the Poujadists' protest movement; partially settled the conflict in North Africa by negotiating the Franco-Tunisian conventions (1955); after the founding of the Fifth Republic, he was elected senator from Jura (1959-1966); passed an agrégation examination for professorship in law (1962); continued to serve in the cabinets of Georges Pompidou, Maurice Couve de Murville and Pierre Messmer as minister of agriculture (8 Jan 1966 - 10 Jul 1968), minister of national education (12 Jul 1968 - 20 Jun 1969), state minister in charge of social affairs (6 Jul 1972 - 28 Mar 1973); elected to the National Assembly (1967, 1968, 1969-1972, 1973-1980) as a deputy for Doubs; councilor general of the canton of Pontarlier (from 1967); vice-president of the general council of the département of Doubs (from 1967); mayor of Pontarlier (1971-1977); President of the National Assembly (2 Apr 1973 - 2 Apr 1978); president of the regional council of Franche-Comté (1974-1981); served as a representative of France in the Assembly of European Communities (1979-1984); elected to the Sénat from the département of Doubs (1980-1988). |
| Biographical sources: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français 1940-1958, 4:41-44. |
| Elections: |
| Vote of investiture (17 Jan 1952 - 18 Jan 1952) |
| votes cast |
502 |
| constitutional majority |
313 |
| in favour |
401 |
| against |
101 |
| Vote of confidence (23 Feb 1955) |
| votes cast |
579 |
| absolute majority |
290 |
| in favour |
369 |
| against |
210 |
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| Source of electoral results: Journal officiel de la République française. Débats parlementaires. Compte rendu in extenso des séances de l'Assemblée nationale et du Conseil de la République. N° 9. Vendredi 18 Janvier 1952. P. 285-286; Journal officiel de la République française. Débats parlementaires. Compte rendu in extenso des séances de l'Assemblée nationale et du Conseil de la République. N° 19. Jeudi 24 Février 1955. P. 898-899. |
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| [1] |
Journal officiel de la République française. Débats parlementaires. Compte rendu in extenso des séances de l'Assemblée nationale et du Conseil de la République. N° 9. Vendredi 18 Janvier 1952. P. 251-278. |
| [2] |
The session of the National Assembly started at 16:00 17 Jan 1952 and continued to 01:10 18 Jan 1952; the results of the vote of investiture were announced at 01:05 18 Jan 1952. |
| [3] |
Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et Décrets. N° 18. Lundi 21 Janvier 1952. P. 915. |
| [4] |
Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et Décrets. N° 60. Samedi 8 Mars 1952. P. 2756. |
| [5] |
Journal officiel de la République française. Débats parlementaires. Compte rendu in extenso des séances de l'Assemblée nationale et du Conseil de la République. N° 19. Jeudi 24 Février 1955. P. 866-886. |
| [6] |
Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et Décrets. N° 48. Jeudi 24 Février 1955. P. 2072. |
| [7] |
Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et Décrets. N° 27. Jeudi 2 Février 1956. P. 1387. |
