Edgar Faure | |
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 Faure at the 1955 Geneva Summit | |
| Prime Minister of France | |
| In office 23 February 1955 – 1 February 1956 | |
| President | René Coty |
| Preceded by | Pierre Mendès France |
| Succeeded by | Guy Mollet |
| In office 20 January 1952 – 8 March 1952 | |
| President | Vincent Auriol |
| Preceded by | René Pleven |
| Succeeded by | Antoine Pinay |
| President of the National Assembly | |
| In office 2 April 1973 – 2 April 1978 | |
| Preceded by | Achille Peretti |
| Succeeded by | Jacques Chaban-Delmas |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Edgar Jean Faure 18 August 1908 Béziers, France |
| Died | 30 March 1988 (aged 79) 7th arrondissement of Paris, France |
| Political party | Radical Party (1929–1956; 1958–1965; 1977–1988) |
| Other political affiliations | Union for the New Republic (1965–1967) Union of Democrats for the Republic (1967–1977) Rally for the Republic (1977) |
| Spouse | Lucie Meyer |
Edgar Jean Faure (French: [ɛdɡaʁ ʒɑ̃ fɔʁ] ; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.[1][2] Prior to his election to the National Assembly for Jura under the Fourth Republic in 1946, he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) in Algiers (1943–1944). A Radical, Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer. In 1978, he was elected to the Académie Française.
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