René Mayer
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French politician Prime Minister of France (1895-1972)
Key facts
- President
- Vincent Auriol
- Preceded by
- Antoine Pinay
- Succeeded by
- Joseph Laniel
- Born
- ( 1895-05-04 ) 4 May 1895, Paris , France
- Died
- 13 December 1972 (1972-12-13) (aged 77), Paris, France
- Party
- Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- René
- Family name
- Mayer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 8th arrondissement of Paris
- Place of death
- 7th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- businessperson
- Employer
- N M Rothschild & Sons
- Political party
- Radical-Socialist and Radical Republican Party
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- Rene Mayer.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- date of death
- 1972-12-13
- Commons category
- René Mayer
- date of birth
- 1895-05-04
- name in native language
- René Mayer
- archives at
- Archives nationales
- birth name
- René Joël Simon Mayer
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Encyclopedic overview
René Mayer ( French: [ʁəne majɛʁ]; 4 May 1895 – 13 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. In 1939-1940 he was an associate of Jean Monnet in London and later succeeded Monnet as head of the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg, leading the Mayer Authority from 1955 to 1958.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “René Mayer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.