René Mayer (; 4 May 189513 December 1972) was a French Radical politician of the Fourth Republic who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1953. Mayer was born and died in

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. In 1939-1940 he was an associate of

Jean Monnet Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (; 9 November 1888 – 16 March 1979) was a French civil servant, entrepreneur, diplomat, financier, and administrator. An influential supporter of European unity, he is considered one of the founding fathers of t ...

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and later succeeded Monnet as head of the

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, leading the

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from 1955 to 1958. He was France's third Prime Minister of

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descent, after Alexandre Millerand and Léon Blum.

Mayer's Ministry, 8 January – 28 June 1953

*René Mayer – President of the Council * Henri Queuille – Vice President of the Council * Georges Bidault – Minister of Foreign Affairs *

René Pleven René Jean Pleven (; 15 April 190113 January 1993) was a notable political figure of the French Resistance and Fourth Republic. An early associate of Jean Monnet then member of the Free French led by Charles de Gaulle, he took a leading role i ...

– Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces * Charles Brune – Minister of the Interior * Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – Minister of Finance * Robert Buron – Minister of Economic Affairs * Jean Moreau – Minister of Budget * Jean-Marie Louvel – Minister of Industry and Energy * Paul Bacon – Minister of Labour and Social Security * Léon Martinaud-Déplat – Minister of Justice * André Marie – Minister of National Education * Henry Bergasse – Minister of Veterans and War Victims * Camille Laurens – Minister of Agriculture * Louis Jacquinot – Minister of Overseas France * André Morice – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism * Paul Ribeyre – Minister of Public Health and Population * Pierre Courant – Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning * Roger Duchet – Minister of Posts * Paul Ribeyre – Minister of Commerce * Jean Letourneau – Minister of Relations with Partner States *

Édouard Bonnefous Édouard Henri Jean Bonnefous (24 August 1907 – 24 February 2007) was a French politician. Before World War II (1939–45) he was active in the study of international affairs. After the war he was elected a deputy on the Rally of Left Republica ...

– Minister of State * Paul Coste-Floret – Minister of State Changes *11 February 1953 – Guy Petit succeeds Ribeyre as Minister of Commerce.

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