Edgar Faure

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Edgar Faure (August 18, 1908 - March 30, 1988) was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist.

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Career

Faure was born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon. He trained as a lawyer in Paris and became a member of the Bar at 27, the youngest lawyer in France to do so at the time. While living in Paris, he became active in Third Republic politics, and joined the Radical Party.

During the German occupation of World War II, he joined the French Resistance in the Maquis, and in 1942 fled to Charles de Gaulle's headquarters in Algiers, where he was made head of the Provisional Government of the Republic's legislative department. At the end of the war he served as French counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials.

In 1946, he was elected to the French Parliament as a Radical. While the popularity of his party declined to less than 10 per cent of the total vote, none of the other parties were able to gain a clear majority. As such, early on, Faure’s party often played a disproportionately important role in the formation of French governments. Faure was a leader of the more conservative wing of the party, opposing the party's left under Pierre Mendès-France. Faure's views changed during the Fourth Republic, and he became a Gaullist under the Fifth. De Gaulle's party Union des Démocrates pour la République sent him on an unofficial mission to the People's Republic of China in 1963.

He was a member of the National Assembly for the Jura départment from 1946 to 1958, and for the Doubs départment from 1967 to 1980 - when he became Senator. He was a Senator from 1959 to 1967 for the Jura, and again in 1980 for the Doubs. In 1978 he became a Member of the Académie française.

On the regional, departemental and local levels, Edgar Faure was mayor of Port-Lesney (Jura) from 1947 to 1971, and from 1983 to 1988, and mayor of Pontarlier between 1971 and 1977; he served as president of the General Council of the Jura départment from 1949 to 1967, then member of the General Council of the Doubs from 1967 to 1979, president of the council of the Franche-Comté région (1974-1981, 1982-1988).

Edgar Faure was interred in Cimetière de Passy, Paris.

During his career, Edgar Faure served as:

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Works

He has published the following books:

  • Le serpent et la tortue (les problèmes de la Chine populaire, Juillard, 1957
  • La disgrâce de Turgot, Gallimard, 1961
  • La capitation de Dioclétien, Sirey 1961
  • Prévoir le présent, Gallimard, 1966
  • L'éducation nationale et la participation, Plon, 1968
  • Philosophie d'une réforme, Plon, 1969
  • L'âme du combat, Fayard, 1969
  • Ce que je crois, Grasset, 1971
  • Pour un nouveau contrat social, Seuil, 1973
  • Au-delà du dialogue avec Philippe Sollers, Balland, 1977
  • La banqueroute de Law, Gallimard, 1977
  • La philosophie de Karl Popper et la société politique d'ouverture, Firmin Didot, 1981
  • Pascal: le procès des provinciales, Firmin Didot, 1930
  • Le pétrole dans la paix et dans la guerre, Nouvelle revue critique 1938
  • Mémoires I, "Avoir toujours raison, c'est un grand tort", Plon, 1982
  • Mémoires II, "Si tel doit être mon destin ce soir", Plon, 1984
  • Discours prononcé pour la réception de Senghor à l'Académie française, le 29 mars 1984
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Faure's First Ministry, 20 January - 8 March 1952

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Faure's Second Ministry, 23 February 1955 - 1 February 1956

Changes

  • 6 October 1955 - Pierre Billotte succeeds Koenig as Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces. Vincent Badie succeeds Triboulet as Minister of Veterans and War Victims.
  • 20 October 1955 - Pierre July leaves the Cabinet and the office of Minister of Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs is abolished.
  • 1 December 1955 - Edgar Faure succeeds Bourgès-Maunoury as interim Minister of the Interior.

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