Preceded by Guy Mollet Education Ecole Polytechnique Political party Radical Party Radical Party | Name Maurice Bourges-Maunoury Succeeded by Felix Gaillard Role French Politician | |
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Died February 10, 1993, Paris, France | ||
Maurice Bourgès Maunoury arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France to meet Fr...HD Stock Footage
Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury ([moʁis buʁʒɛs monuʁi]; 19 August 1914, in Luisant, Eure-et-Loir – 10 February 1993, in Paris) was a French Radical politician who served as 149th Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957.
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- Maurice Bourgs Maunoury arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris France to meet FrHD Stock Footage
- Prime minister
- Controversy
- Death
- Bourgs Maunourys Ministry 13 June 6 November 1957
- References
He is famous, especially, for fulfilling a prominent ministerial role in the government during the Suez Crisis.
Prime minister
He became Prime Minister in June 1957.
While he was Prime Minister, the French Government achieved Parliamentary ratification of the Treaty of Rome.
He was succeeded as Prime Minister in November 1957 by Félix Gaillard.
Controversy
As minister of Interior, he nominated the controversial Maurice Papon at the head of the Prefecture of Police in 1958, functions which he kept during the 1961 Paris massacre.
Death
He died in Paris in 1993.