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Which position did Edgar Faure hold in 1955?
Edgar Faure Edgar Faure ( ; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988 ) was a French politician , essayist , historian , and memoirist . Life . Faure was born in Béziers , Languedoc-Roussillon , to a French army doctor . He was nearsighted yet a brilliant student since his youth , earning a baccalauréat at 15 , and a law degree at 19 in Paris . At 21 years of age he became a member of the bar association , the youngest lawyer in France to do so at the time . While living in Paris , he became active in Third Republic politics , and he joined the Radical Party . During the German occupation of World War II , he joined the French Resistance in the Maquis , and in 1942 , he fled to Charles de Gaulles headquarters in Algiers , where he was made head of the Provisional Government of the Republics legislative department . At the end of the war , he served as French counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials . In 1946 , he was elected to the French Parliament as a Radical . While the popularity of his party declined to less than 10% of the total vote , none of the other parties was able to gain a clear majority . Therefore , early on , his party often played a disproportionately important role in the formation of French governments , and he even led the cabinet in 1952 and from 1955 to 1956 . Faure was a leader of the more conservative wing of the party , opposing the partys left , under Pierre Mendès-France . Faures views changed during the Fourth Republic , and after initial opposition to the Fifth Republic ( he voted against presidential election by universal suffrage in the 1962 referendum ) , he eventually became a Gaullist . De Gaulles party , the Union for the New Republic , sent him on an unofficial mission to the Peoples Republic of China in 1963 . In government he served in successive ministries : Agriculture ( 1966–1968 ) , National Education ( 1968–1969 , where he was responsible for pushing through reform of the universities ) , and Social Affairs ( 1972–1973 ) . He declined to be a candidate at the 1974 presidential election , but supported Valéry Giscard dEstaing against the Gaullist candidate , Jacques Chaban-Delmas . He had the reputation of a careerist and the nickname of weathercock . He replied with humour , it is not the weathercock which turns ; it is the wind ! He was a member of the National Assembly for the département of Jura from 1946 to 1958 , and for the départment of Doubs from 1967 to 1980 . He presided over the French National Assembly from 1973 to 1978 . He sought another term as Assembly President in 1978 but was defeated by Chaban-Delmas . Faure was a senator from 1959 to 1967 for Jura and again , in 1980 , for Doubs . In 1978 , he became a member of the Académie française . On the regional , departmental and local levels , Edgar Faure was mayor of Port-Lesney ( Jura ) from 1947 to 1971 and from 1983 to 1988 and the mayor of Pontarlier between 1971 and 1977 ; he served as president of the General Council of the Jura départment from 1949 to 1967 , then member of the General Council of the Doubs from 1967 to 1979 , president of the council of the Franche-Comté région ( 1974–1981 , 1982–1988 ) . He played a key role during the creation and first years of the Assembly of European Regions ( AER ) , becoming his first president in 1985 and staying in that position until 1988 . He was buried at Cimetière de Passy , Paris . Personal life . In 1931 , Faure married writer Lucie Meyer , a daughter of a silk merchant . They spent their one-month-long honeymoon in the Soviet Union . Political career . Governmental functions - President of the council ( prime minister ) : January–February 1952 / February–December 1955 - Secretary of State for Finances : 1949–1950 - Minister of Budget : 1950–1951 - Minister of Justice : 1951–1952 - Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs : 1953–1955 - Minister of Foreign Affairs : January–February 1955 - Minister of Finance , Economic Affairs and Planning : May–June 1958 - Minister of Agriculture : 1966–1968 - Minister of National Education : 1968–1969 - Minister of State , Minister of Social Affairs : 1972–1973 Electoral mandates - President of the National Assembly of France : 1973–1978 - Member of the National Assembly of France for Doubs : Elected in 1967 , 1968 , but he remains minister / 1973–1980 - Member of the National Assembly of France for Jura : 1946–1958 - Senator of the Jura ( departement ) : 1959–1966 ( Became minister in 1966 ) - Senator of the Doubs : 1980–1988 ( He died in 1988 ) - President of the Regional Council of Franche-Comté : 1974–1981 / 1982–1988 ( He died in 1988 ) - Mayor of Port-Lesney : 1947–1970 / 1983–1988 ( He died in 1988 ) - Mayor of Pontarlier : 1971–1977 - President of the General council of the Jura : 1949–1967 - General councillor of the Jura ( departement ) : 1967–1979 Bibliography . He published the following books : - Le serpent et la tortue ( les problèmes de la Chine populaire ) , Juillard , 1957 - La disgrâce de Turgot , Gallimard , 1961 - La capitation de Dioclétien , Sirey 1961 - Prévoir le présent , Gallimard , 1966 - Léducation nationale et la participation , Plon , 1968 - Philosophie dune réforme , Plon , 1969 - Lâme du combat , Fayard , 1969 - Ce que je crois , Grasset , 1971 - Pour un nouveau contrat social , Seuil , 1973 - Au-delà du dialogue avec Philippe Sollers , Balland , 1977 - La banqueroute de Law , Gallimard , 1977 - La philosophie de Karl Popper et la société politique douverture , Firmin Didot , 1981 - Pascal : le procès des provinciales , Firmin Didot , 1930 - Le pétrole dans la paix et dans la guerre , Nouvelle revue critique 1938 - Mémoires I , Avoir toujours raison , cest un grand tort , Plon , 1982 - Mémoires II , Si tel doit être mon destin ce soir , Plon , 1984 - Discours prononcé pour la réception de Senghor à lAcadémie française , le 29 mars 1984 Governments . First ministry ( 20 January – 8 March 1952 ) . - Edgar Faure – President of the Council and Minister of Finance - Georges Bidault – Vice President of the Council and Minister of National Defense - Henri Queuille – Vice President of the Council - Robert Schuman – Minister of Foreign Affairs - Pierre Pflimlin – Minister for the Council of Europe - Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – Minister of Armaments - Charles Brune – Minister of the Interior - Robert Buron – Minister of Economic Affairs and Information - Pierre Courant – Minister of Budget - Jean-Marie Louvel – Minister of Industry and Energy - Paul Bacon – Minister of Labour and Social Security - Léon Martinaud-Deplat – Minister of Justice - André Morice – Minister of Merchant Marine - Pierre-Olivier Lapie – Minister of National Education - Emmanuel Temple – Minister of Veterans and War Victims - Camille Laurens – Minister of Agriculture - Louis Jacquinot – Minister of Overseas France - Antoine Pinay – Minister of Public Works , Transport , and Tourism - Paul Ribeyre – Minister of Public Health and Population - Eugène Claudius-Petit – Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning - Roger Duchet – Minister of Posts , Telegraphs , and Telephones - Édouard Bonnefous – Minister of Commerce - Jean Letourneau – Minister of Partner States - Joseph Laniel – Minister of State - François Mitterrand – Minister of State Second ministry ( 23 February 1955 – 1 February 1956 ) . - Edgar Faure – President of the Council - Antoine Pinay – Minister of Foreign Affairs - Pierre Koenig – Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces - Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – Minister of the Interior - Pierre Pflimlin – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs - André Morice – Minister of Commerce and Industry - Paul Bacon – Minister of Labour and Social Security - Robert Schuman – Minister of Justice - Paul Antier – Minister of Merchant Marine - Jean Berthoin – Minister of National Education - Raymond Triboulet – Minister of Veterans and War Victims - Jean Sourbet – Minister of Agriculture - Pierre-Henri Teitgen – Minister of Overseas France - Édouard Corniglion-Molinier – Minister of Public Works , Transport , and Tourism - Bernard Lafay – Minister of Public Health and Population - Roger Duchet – Minister of Reconstruction and Housing - Édouard Bonnefous – Minister of Posts - Pierre July – Minister of Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs Changes - 6 October 1955 – Pierre Billotte succeeds Koenig as Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces . Vincent Badie succeeds Triboulet as Minister of Veterans and War Victims . - 20 October 1955 – Pierre July leaves the Cabinet and the office of Minister of Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs is abolished . - 1 December 1955 – Edgar Faure succeeds Bourgès-Maunoury as interim Minister of the Interior .