Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury

Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
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Prime Minister of France
In office 13 June 1957 – 6 November 1957
Preceded by	Guy Mollet
Succeeded by	Félix Gaillard
Personal details
Born	19 August 1914
Died
Political party	Radical

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Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury (L) meeting Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol during a visit to Israel in 1958

Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury (French pronunciation: ​[moʁis buʁʒɛs monuʁi]; 19 August 1914, in Luisant, Eure-et-Loir – 10 February 1993, in Paris) was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957.

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.

Bourgès-Maunoury's Ministry, 13 June – 6 November 1957

• Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – President of the Council
• Christian Pineau – Minister of Foreign Affairs
• André Morice – Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces
• Jean Gilbert-Jules – Minister of the Interior
• Félix Gaillard – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
• Édouard Corniglion-Molinier – Minister of Justice
• René Billères – Minister of National Education, Youth, and Sports
• André Dulin – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
• Gérard Jaquet – Minister of Overseas France
• Édouard Bonnefous – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
• Albert Gazier – Minister of Social Affairs
• Max Lejeune – Minister of Sahara
• Félix Houphouët-Boigny – Minister of State

Political offices
Preceded by Jacques Chastellain	Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism 1950	Succeeded by Antoine Pinay
Preceded by —	Minister of Armaments 1952	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	Succeeded by Henri Ulver
Preceded by Jacques Chaban-Delmas	interim Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism 1954	Succeeded by Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Preceded by Emmanuel Temple	Minister of the Armed Forces 1955	Succeeded by Marie Pierre Koenig
Preceded by François Mitterrand	Minister of the Interior 1955	Succeeded by Edgar Faure
Preceded by Pierre Billotte	Minister of National Defence 1956–1957	Succeeded by André Morice
Preceded by Guy Mollet	Prime Minister of France 1957	Succeeded by Félix Gaillard
Preceded by Jean Gilbert-Jules	Minister of the Interior 1957–1958	Succeeded by Maurice Faure