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    Edgar Jean Faure (French: [ɛdɡaʁ fɔʁ]; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as...
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    was coming to dominate French politics. His split over Algeria with Edgar Faure, leader of the conservative wing of the Radical Party, led to Mendès...
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    been scheduled for June 1956; however, they were brought forward by Edgar Faure using a constitutional sanction. The previous legislative elections in...
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  • During the 1956 legislative campaign, it became a political party led by Edgar Faure and Radicals who refused to join the Republican Front coalition. The...
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    Interior Maurice Petsche – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Edgar Faure – Minister of Budget Jean-Marie Louvel – Minister of Commerce and Industry...
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    also a noted author, with his book Des hommes d'État winning the 2008 Edgar Faure Prize. Bruno Le Maire was born on 15 April 1969 in Neuilly-sur-Seine...
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  • pronounced [foʁe]). Dominique Faure (born 1959), French politician Edgar Faure (1908–1988), French politician Félix Faure (1841–1899), French politician...
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    Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France. They were accompanied by the foreign ministers of the four...
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    Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas, the Chairman of the National Assembly Edgar Faure, the former Craftsmen and Shopkeepers Minister representing the ultra-conservative...
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    University of Lyon transitioned into a decentralized model under the Edgar Faure law, advocating for university autonomy. Flourishing as a prominent research...
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    Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (Third Force) II (1951) 69 Edgar Faure (1908–1988) 1 20 January 1952 8 March 1952 Radical Party 70 Antoine Pinay...
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    office 8 March 1952 – 8 January 1953 President Vincent Auriol Preceded by Edgar Faure Succeeded by René Mayer Ombudsman of France In office 1973–1974 Preceded...
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    Minister of Foreign Affairs Maurice Faure – Minister of the Interior Pierre de Chevigné – Minister of Armed Forces Edgar Faure – Minister of Finance, Economic...
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    served as Minister of Defense under Pierre Mendès-France (1954) and Edgar Faure (1955). He gave his strong support to the new State of Israel as president...
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    focused on forced labor, economic plunder, and massacres. Prosecutor Edgar Faure grouped together various German policies, such as the German annexation...
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    "impossible crime" writers, Vindry being the most prolific with 16 novels. Edgar Faure, who later to become Prime Minister of France, also wrote in the genre...
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    1954 – 8 January 1959 Prime Minister Joseph Laniel Pierre Mendes-France Edgar Faure Guy Mollet Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury Félix Gaillard Pierre Pflimlin Charles...
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  • Edgar Faure 20 January 1952 8 March 1952 Antoine Pinay 8 March 1952 8 January 1953 Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury 8 January 1953 28 June 1953 Edgar Faure 28...
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    Succeeded by Laurent Fabius In office 3 April 1978 – 2 July 1981 Preceded by Edgar Faure Succeeded by Louis Mermaz In office 9 December 1959 – 24 June 1969 Preceded...
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    victory in the 1973 elections, he had to step down and was replaced by Edgar Faure. Peretti was the mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1947 until his death...
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    Succeeded by — Preceded by Antoine Pinay Minister of Finance 1953 Succeeded by Edgar Faure Preceded by Jean-Marie Louvel Minister of Commerce and Industry 1954...
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    Félix Faure. The universities of Paris-Sorbonne and Pierre-et-Marie-Curie were created as a result of the university reform prepared by Edgar Faure in 1968...
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    the condition of Chaban-Delmas, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Edgar Faure's withdrawals. Faure accepted, as well as Giscard on the condition that Chaban-Delmas...
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    National Defense Maurice Petsche – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Edgar Faure – Minister of Budget Jean-Marie Louvel – Minister of Commerce and Industry...
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    Vaugirard. After the May 1968 student protests, Minister of Education Edgar Faure responded by founding new universities with greater autonomy. Most prominent...
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    Contemporary Jewish Documentation (1943) and after the war, he assisted Edgar Faure at the Nuremberg Trial. In July 1943, a Soviet military court in Krasnodar...
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    Prime Minister Joseph Laniel Preceded by Pierre Pflimlin Succeeded by Edgar Faure Minister of Overseas France In office 12 July 1950 – 15 August 1951 Prime...
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    Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1930 to 1964. In 1931, she married Edgar Faure, then a young lawyer. A refugee with her husband and daughter in Tunisia...
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    (1899–1943), a hero of the French Resistance in the Second World War Edgar Faure (1908–1988), statesman Gabriel Bacquier (1924-2020), baritone Christian...
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    that same university. After then-Education Minister Edgar Faure's university reforms (known as Loi Faure [fr]) were implemented in 1968, she continued her...
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