Pierre Guillaumat (5 August 1909 – 28 August 1991) was a
Minister of National Education and
Minister of the Armies under French President
Charles de Gaulle and founder of the
Elf Aquitaine
Elf Aquitaine is a French brand of oils and other motor products (such as brake fluids) for automobiles and trucks. Elf is a former petroleum company which merged with TotalFina to form "TotalFinaElf". The new company changed its name to Total ...
oil company in 1967. He was born in
La Flèche
La Flèche () is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley. It is the sub-prefecture of the South-Sarthe, the chief district and the chief city of a canton, and the second most po ...
, Sarthe, the son of French general
Adolphe Guillaumat.
1909 births
1991 deaths
People from La Flèche
Politicians from Pays de la Loire
French Ministers of Defence
French Ministers of National Education
Politicians of the French Fifth Republic
French Resistance members
French people of the Algerian War
French chief executives
École Polytechnique alumni
Mines ParisTech alumni
Corps des mines
TotalEnergies people
Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur
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