Quick Facts
Biography
Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury (French pronunciation: [moʁis buʁʒɛs monuʁi]; 19 August 1914, in Luisant, Eure-et-Loir – 10 February 1993, in Paris) was a French Radical politician who served as 149th Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957.
He is famous, especially, for fulfilling a prominent ministerial role in the government during the Suez Crisis.
Prime minister
He became Prime Minister in June 1957.
While he was Prime Minister, the French Government achieved Parliamentary ratification of the Treaty of Rome.
He was succeeded as Prime Minister in November 1957 by Félix Gaillard.
Controversy
As minister of Interior, he nominated the controversial Maurice Papon at the head of the Prefecture of Police in 1958, functions which he kept during the 1961 Paris massacre.
Death
He died in Paris in 1993.
Bourgès-Maunoury's Ministry, 13 June – 6 November 1957
- Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – President of the Council
- Christian Pineau – Minister of Foreign Affairs
- André Morice – Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces
- Jean Gilbert-Jules – Minister of the Interior
- Félix Gaillard – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
- Édouard Corniglion-Molinier – Minister of Justice
- René Billères – Minister of National Education, Youth, and Sports
- André Dulin – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
- Gérard Jaquet – Minister of Overseas France
- Édouard Bonnefous – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
- Albert Gazier – Minister of Social Affairs
- Max Lejeune – Minister of Sahara
- Félix Houphouët-Boigny – Minister of State
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Jacques Chastellain | Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism 1950 | Succeeded by Antoine Pinay |
| Preceded by — | Minister of Armaments 1952 | 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 | Succeeded by Henri Ulver |
| Preceded by Jacques Chaban-Delmas | interim Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism 1954 | Succeeded by Jacques Chaban-Delmas |
| Preceded by Emmanuel Temple | Minister of the Armed Forces 1955 | Succeeded by Marie Pierre Koenig |
| Preceded by François Mitterrand | Minister of the Interior 1955 | Succeeded by Edgar Faure |
| Preceded by Pierre Billotte | Minister of National Defence 1956–1957 | Succeeded by André Morice |
| Preceded by Guy Mollet | Prime Minister of France 1957 | Succeeded by Félix Gaillard |
| Preceded by Jean Gilbert-Jules | Minister of the Interior 1957–1958 | Succeeded by Maurice Faure |