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Key facts
- President
- René Coty
- Preceded by
- Pierre Mendès France
- Succeeded by
- Guy Mollet
- Born
- Edgar Jean Faure , 18 August 1908, Béziers , France
- Died
- 30 March 1988 (1988-03-30) (aged 79), 7th arrondissement of Paris , France
- Party
- Radical Party (1929–1956; 1958–1965; 1977–1988)
- Other political affiliations
- Union for the New Republic (1965–1967), Union of Democrats for the Republic (1967–1977), Rally for the Republic (1977)
- Spouse
- Lucie Meyer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Béziers
- Place of death
- 7th arrondissement of Paris
- Spouse
- Lucie Faure
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Educated at
- Lycée Voltaire
- Political party
- Radical-Socialist and Radical Republican Party
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Image
- Faure1939 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- date of death
- 1988-03-30
- place of burial
- Passy Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1908-08-18
- Commons category
- Edgar Faure
- name in native language
- Edgar Faure
- archives at
- Archives nationales
- writing language
- French
- P12749
- Asperula arvensis
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Encyclopedic overview
Edgar Jean Faure ( French: [ɛdɡaʁ ʒɑ̃ fɔʁ] ; 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. Prior to his election to the National Assembly for Jura under the Fourth Republic in 1946, he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) in Algiers (1943–1944). A Radical, Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer. In 1978, he was elected to the Académie Française.
Life
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