Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
| Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury | |
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| 95th Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 13 June 1957 – 6 November 1957 |
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| Preceded by | Guy Mollet |
| Succeeded by | Félix Gaillard |
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Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury 19 August 1914 |
| Died | 10 February 1993 (aged 78) |
| Political party | Radical |
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 149th 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.
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.
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.
He died in Paris in 1993.
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