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    Edgar Jean Faure (French: [ɛdɡaʁ fɔʁ]; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as...
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    was coming to dominate French politics. His split over Algeria with Edgar Faure, leader of the conservative wing of the Radical Party, led to Mendès...
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  • pronounced [foʁe]). Dominique Faure (born 1959), French politician Edgar Faure (1908–1988), French politician Félix Faure (1841–1899), French politician...
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    been scheduled for June 1956; however, they were brought forward by Edgar Faure using a constitutional sanction. The previous legislative elections in...
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    Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France. They were accompanied by the foreign ministers of the four...
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    also a noted author, with his book Des hommes d'État winning the 2008 Edgar Faure Prize. Bruno Le Maire was born on 15 April 1969 in Neuilly-sur-Seine...
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    Interior Maurice Petsche – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Edgar Faure – Minister of Budget Jean-Marie Louvel – Minister of Commerce and Industry...
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  • During the 1956 legislative campaign, it became a political party led by Edgar Faure and Radicals who refused to join the Republican Front coalition. The...
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    Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas, the Chairman of the National Assembly Edgar Faure, the former Craftsmen and Shopkeepers Minister representing the ultra-conservative...
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    focused on forced labor, economic plunder, and massacres. Prosecutor Edgar Faure grouped together various German policies, such as the German annexation...
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    office 8 March 1952 – 8 January 1953 President Vincent Auriol Preceded by Edgar Faure Succeeded by René Mayer Ombudsman of France In office 1973–1974 Preceded...
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    served as Minister of Defense under Pierre Mendès-France (1954) and Edgar Faure (1955). He gave his strong support to the new State of Israel as president...
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  • for popularity, desperately), published by Albin Michel, which won the Edgar Faure political work prize. She then joined the NextRadioTV group, subsequently...
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    "impossible crime" writers, Vindry being the most prolific with 16 novels. Edgar Faure, later to become Prime Minister of France, was a not particularly successful...
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    1954 – 8 January 1959 Prime Minister Joseph Laniel Pierre Mendes-France Edgar Faure Guy Mollet Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury Félix Gaillard Pierre Pflimlin Charles...
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    Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (Third Force) II (1951) 69 Edgar Faure (1908–1988) 1 20 January 1952 8 March 1952 Radical Party 70 Antoine Pinay...
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    Contemporary Jewish Documentation (1943) and after the war, he assisted Edgar Faure at the Nuremberg Trial. In July 1943, a Soviet military court in Krasnodar...
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    The Ballet Class (Degas, Musée d'Orsay) (category Paintings by Edgar Degas)
    the French artist Edgar Degas. It is in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. It was commissioned by Jean-Baptiste Faure. Degas temporarily...
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  • Edgar Faure 20 January 1952 8 March 1952 Antoine Pinay 8 March 1952 8 January 1953 Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury 8 January 1953 28 June 1953 Edgar Faure 28...
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    Succeeded by Laurent Fabius In office 3 April 1978 – 2 July 1981 Preceded by Edgar Faure Succeeded by Louis Mermaz In office 9 December 1959 – 24 June 1969 Preceded...
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    Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas and Assemblée nationale president Edgar Faure. Mitterrand was endorsed as well by the Parti communiste français (PCF)...
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    Félix Faure. The Universities of Paris-Sorbonne and Pierre-et-Marie-Curie were created as a result of the university reform prepared by Edgar Faure in 1968...
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    Minister of Foreign Affairs Maurice Faure – Minister of the Interior Pierre de Chevigné – Minister of Armed Forces Edgar Faure – Minister of Finance, Economic...
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    Vaugirard. After the May 1968 student protests, Minister of Education Edgar Faure responded by founding new universities with greater autonomy. Most prominent...
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    victory in the 1973 elections, he had to step down and was replaced by Edgar Faure. Peretti was the mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1947 until his death...
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    Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1930 to 1964. In 1931, she married Edgar Faure, then a young lawyer. A refugee with her husband and daughter in Tunisia...
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    Succeeded by — Preceded by Antoine Pinay Minister of Finance 1953 Succeeded by Edgar Faure Preceded by Jean-Marie Louvel Minister of Commerce and Industry 1954...
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    National Defense Maurice Petsche – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Edgar Faure – Minister of Budget Jean-Marie Louvel – Minister of Commerce and Industry...
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    Robert Schuman André Marie Henri Queuille Georges Bidault René Pleven Edgar Faure Antoine Pinay René Mayer Joseph Laniel Preceded by Albert Lebrun (President...
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    documentation on the persecution of Jews during World War II. He also assisted Edgar Faure at the Nuremberg Trial. Poliakov was director of research at the National...
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