Edgar Faure

Edgar Faure
Faure at the 1955 Geneva Summit
Prime Minister of France
In office 23 February 1955 – 1 February 1956
President	René Coty
Preceded by	Pierre Mendès France
Succeeded by	Guy Mollet
In office 20 January 1952 – 8 March 1952
President	Vincent Auriol
Preceded by	René Pleven
Succeeded by	Antoine Pinay
President of the National Assembly
In office 2 April 1973 – 2 April 1978
Preceded by	Achille Peretti
Succeeded by	Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Personal details
Born	Edgar Jean Faure 18 August 1908 Béziers, France
Died	30 March 1988(1988-03-30) (aged 79) 7th arrondissement of Paris, France
Political 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

Edgar Jean Faure (French: [ɛdɡaʁ 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.^[1][2] 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.