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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
Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
. 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 ...
in
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and later succeeded Monnet as head of the
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in
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, leading the
Mayer Authority The Mayer Authority was the second High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), between 1955 and 1958. Its president was René Mayer of France. There were three more High Authorities before the institutions of the ECSC were ...
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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* 1895 births 1972 deaths Politicians from Paris French people of Jewish descent Radical Party (France) politicians Prime ministers of France Deputy prime ministers of France Ministers of justice of France Finance ministers of France Ministers of transport of France Ministers of merchant marine of France 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 Members of Parliament for French Algeria French European commissioners Rothschild & Co people Members of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community French military personnel of World War I Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery {{France-politician-RPV-stub