Background
BOURGES-MAUNOURY, Maurice was born on August 19, 1914. Son of Georges Bourges and Genevieve Maunoury.
General politician prime minister
BOURGES-MAUNOURY, Maurice was born on August 19, 1914. Son of Georges Bourges and Genevieve Maunoury.
École Polytechnique; Collège Stanislas de Paris.
He is famous, especially, for fulfilling a prominent ministerial role in the government during the Suez Crisis. He became Prime Minister in June 1957. He was succeeded as Prime Minister in November 1957 by Félix Gaillard.
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.
He died in Paris in 1993. 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.
Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste.
Constituent Assembly 1946.
Married 2nd Jacqueline Lacoste.