Joseph Laniel (; 12 October 18898 April 1975) was a French conservative politician of the
Fourth Republic, who served as
Prime Minister
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for a year from 1953 to 1954. During the middle of his tenure as Prime Minister Laniel was an unsuccessful candidate for the French Presidency, a post won by
René Coty
Jules Gustave René Coty (; 20 March 188222 November 1962) was President of France from 1954 to 1959. He was the second and last president of the Fourth French Republic.
Early life and politics
René Coty was born in Le Havre and studied at th ...
.
Co-founder of the
Republican Party of Liberty (PRL), then of the
National Center of Independents and Peasants
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(CNIP), Laniel's cabinet was overturned after the
French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in
Indochina
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in 1954. He was succeeded by
Pierre Mendès France
Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France (; 11 January 190718 October 1982) was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party, he headed a government supported by a co ...
.
Laniel's Ministry, 28 June 1953 – 19 June 1954
*Joseph Laniel – President of the Council
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Henri Queuille – Vice President of the Council
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Paul Reynaud
Paul Reynaud (; 15 October 1878 – 21 September 1966) was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his stances on economic liberalism and militant opposition to Germany.
Reynaud opposed the Munich Agreement of ...
– Vice President of the Council
*
Pierre-Henri Teitgen
Pierre-Henri Teitgen (29 May 1908 – 6 April 1997) was a French lawyer, professor and politician.Johnson, Douglas (9 April 1997) ''The Independent''. Retrieved 21 January 2016 Teitgen was born in Rennes, Brittany. Taken POW in 1940, he playe ...
– Vice President of the Council
*
Georges Bidault – Minister of Foreign Affairs
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René Pleven – Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces
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Léon Martinaud-Déplat
Léon Jean Martinaud-Déplat (9 August 1899 – 5 October 1969) was a French lawyer and Radical politician who was a deputy in 1932–36 and in 1951–56.
He was Minister of Justice in 1952–53 and then Minister of the Interior in 1953–54.
He w ...
– Minister of the Interior
*
Edgar Faure
Edgar Jean Faure (; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.[Jean-Marie Louvel
Jean-Marie Louvel (1 July 1900 – 13 June 1970) was a French engineer and politician.
1900 births
1970 deaths
People from Orne
Politicians from Normandy
Popular Republican Movement politicians
French Ministers of Commerce and I ...]
– Minister of Commerce and Industry
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Paul Bacon – Minister of Labour and Social Security
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Paul Ribeyre
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– Minister of Justice
*
André Marie – Minister of National Education
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André Mutter
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– Minister of Veterans and War Victims
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Louis Jacquinot
Louis Jacquinot (16 September 1898 – 14 June 1993) was a French lawyer and politician, and chief of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré's office.
Jacquinot was born in Gondrecourt-le-Château (Meuse) in 1898. Entering parliament in 1932, he la ...
– Minister of Overseas France
*
Jacques Chastellain
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– Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
*
Paule Coste-Floret
Paule (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France.
Population
Inhabitants of Paule are called ''paulois'' in French.
Geography
Paule is located on the northern slope of the Montagnes Noires (french ...
– Minister of Public Health and Population
*
Maurice Lemaire
Maurice Lemaire was a French Gaullist politician, born on 25 May 1895 at Gerbépal in the Vosges region: he died in Paris on 29 January 1979.
Lemaire’s background was as a railway engineer. He was the Director General of the SNCF following ...
– Minister of Reconstruction and Housing
*
Pierre Ferri – Minister of Posts
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Edmond Barrachin – Minister of Constitutional Reform
*
Édouard Corniglion-Molinier
General Édouard Corniglion-Molinier (23 January 1898, in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes – 9 May 1963) was an aviator and member of the French Resistance, a member of the French government during the French Fourth Republic, and, in the 1930-1940s, a movie ...
– Minister of State
Changes
*3 June 1954 –
Édouard Frédéric-Dupont enters the ministry as Minister of Relations with Partner States.
References
1889 births
1975 deaths
People from Orne
Politicians from Normandy
Republican Centre politicians
Democratic Republican Alliance politicians
Republican Party of Liberty politicians
National Centre of Independents and Peasants politicians
Prime Ministers of France
French Ministers of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
Members of the 15th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 16th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945)
Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1946)
Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic
Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic
Deputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic
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