Education
École Libre des Sciences Politiques.
General politician prime minister senator
École Libre des Sciences Politiques.
He was the youngest head of a French government since Napoleon. A senior civil servant in the Inland Revenue Service, Gaillard joined the Resistance and served on its Finance committee. During the Fourth Republic, he held a number of governmental offices, notably as Minister of Economy and Finance in 1957.
He became Prime Minister in 1957, but, not unusually for the French Fourth Republic, his term of office lasted only a few months.
Gaillard was defeated in a vote of no confidence by the French National Assembly, in March 1958, after the bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, a Tunisian village. He represented a generation of young politicians whose careers were blighted by the advent of the Fifth Republic.
Gaillard"s end was tragic. In July 1970 he perished in a yachting accident.
Félix Gaillard – President of the Council
Christian Pineau – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jacques Chaban-Delmas – Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces
Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – Minister of the Interior
Pierre Pflimlin – Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs, and Planning
Paul Ribeyre – Minister of Commerce and Industry
Paul Bacon – Minister of Labour and Social Security
Robert Lecourt – Minister of Justice
René Billères – Minister of National Education, Youth, and Sports
Antoine Quinson – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
Roland Boscary-Monsservin – Minister of Agriculture
Gérard Jaquet – Minister of Overseas France
Édouard Bonnefous – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
Félix Houphouët-Boigny – Minister of Public Health and Population
Pierre Garet – Minister of Reconstruction and Housing
Max Lejeune – Minister for the Sahara.
President of the Radical Party from 1958 to 1961, he advocated an alliance of the center-left and the center-right parties.
As a member of the Radical Party, he was elected deputy of Charente département in 1946.