Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury (; 19 August 1914 – 10 February 1993) was a French

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politician who served as the

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in the Fourth Republic during 1957. Bourgès-Maunoury was born in Luisant, Eure-et-Loir. He is famous, especially, for fulfilling a prominent ministerial role in the government during the

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Prime minister

He became Prime Minister in June 1957. While he was Prime Minister, the French Government achieved Parliamentary ratification of the

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. He was succeeded as Prime Minister in November 1957 by

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Controversy

As minister of Interior, he nominated the controversial Maurice Papon at the head of the

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in 1958, functions which he kept during the

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Death

He died in Paris in 1993.

Bourgès-Maunoury's Ministry, 13 June – 6 November 1957

*Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – President of the Council *

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– Minister of Foreign Affairs *

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– Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces * Jean Gilbert-Jules – Minister of the Interior *

– Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs * Édouard Corniglion-Molinier – Minister of Justice *

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– Minister of National Education, Youth, and Sports * André Dulin – Minister of Veterans and War Victims * Gérard Jaquet – Minister of Overseas France * Édouard Bonnefous – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism *

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– Minister of Social Affairs * Max Lejeune – Minister of Sahara *

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– Minister of State

References

1914 births 1993 deaths Politicians from Eure-et-Loir Radical Party (France) politicians Prime Ministers of France École Polytechnique alumni French people of the Algerian War People of the Suez Crisis Companions of the Liberation Transport ministers of France French Ministers of Commerce and Industry French interior ministers French Ministers of Finance {{France-politician-RPV-stub