Guy Mollet
| Guy Mollet | |
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| 94th Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 1 February 1956 – 13 June 1957 |
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| Preceded by | Edgar Faure |
| Succeeded by | Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury |
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| Born | 31 December 1905 Flers, Orne |
| Died | 3 October 1975 (aged 69) Paris |
| Political party |
SFIO (1923–1969) PS (1969–1975) |
Guy Mollet (French pronunciation: [ɡi mɔlɛ]; 31 December 1905 – 3 October 1975) was a French Socialist politician. He led the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) party from 1946 to 1969 and was Prime Minister from 1956 to 1957.
He was born in Flers in Normandy, the son of a textile worker. He was educated in Le Havre and became a school teacher in Arras. Like most teachers, he was an active member of the French Socialist Party, then called the SFIO, and in 1928 he became SFIO Secretary for the Pas-de-Calais département. He joined the French Army in 1939 and was taken prisoner by the Germans. Released after seven months, he joined the Resistance in the Arras area and was three times arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo.
In October 1945 Mollet was elected to the French National Assembly as representative of Pas-de-Calais. In 1946 he became Secretary-General of the SFIO, standing against Daniel Mayer, the candidate supported by Léon Blum. Mollet represented the left-wing of the party which feared the dissolution of the Socialist identity in a centerist conglomerate. Although he retained Marxist terminology, he accepted alliance with center and center-right parties during the Fourth Republic, and his relations with the French Communist Party (PCF) - which had become the largest left-wing party - were very poor. Indeed, in his mind, "the Communist Party is not on the left, but in the East".
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