Félix Gaillard
| Félix Gaillard | |
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| 96th Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 6 November 1957 – 14 May 1958 |
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| Preceded by | Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Pflimlin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 November 1919 Paris |
| Died | 10 July 1970 (aged 50) near Jersey |
| Political party | Radical |
Félix Gaillard d'Aimé (French: [feliks ɡajaʁ]; 1919–1970) was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister under the Fourth Republic from 1957 to 1958. He was the youngest head of a French government since Napoleon.
A senior civil servant in the Inland Revenue Service, Gaillard joined the Resistance and served on its Finance committee. As a member of the Radical Party, he was elected deputy of Charente département in 1946. During the Fourth Republic, he held a number of governmental offices, notably as Minister of Economy and Finance in 1957.
He became Prime Minister in 1957, but, not unusually for the French Fourth Republic, his term of office lasted only a few months. Gaillard was defeated in a vote of no confidence by the French National Assembly, in March 1958, after the bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, a Tunisian village.
President of the Radical Party from 1958 to 1961, he advocated an alliance of the center-left and the center-right parties. He represented a generation of young politicians whose careers were blighted by the advent of the Fifth Republic.
Gaillard's end was tragic. In July 1970 he perished in a yachting accident.
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