Edgar Faure
French politician (1908-1988) · France · On the map · Politicians · Died at 79
Edgar Jean Faure was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.
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Prior to his election to the National Assembly for Jura under the Fourth Republic in 1946, he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) in Algiers (1943-1944). A Radical, Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer. In 1978, he was elected to the Académie Française.
