Pierre Mendès France
Pierre Mendès France | |
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Mendès France in 1948 | |
| Prime Minister of France | |
| In office 18 June 1954 – 23 February 1955 | |
| President | René Coty |
| Preceded by | Joseph Laniel |
| Succeeded by | Edgar Faure |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 18 June 1954 – 20 January 1955 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Georges Bidault |
| Succeeded by | Edgar Faure |
| Mayor of Louviers | |
| In office 13 March 1953 – 27 November 1958 | |
| Preceded by | Marcel Malherbe |
| Succeeded by | André Vincelot |
| In office 17 May 1935 – 20 September 1939 | |
| Preceded by | Raoul Thorel |
| Succeeded by | Auguste Fromentin |
| President of the General Council of Eure | |
| In office 6 October 1945 – 6 December 1958 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Gustave Héon |
| Minister of National Economics | |
| In office 4 September 1944 – 6 April 1945 | |
| Prime Minister | Charles de Gaulle |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | René Pleven |
| Commissioner for Finances | |
| In office 3 November 1943 – 4 September 1944 | |
| President | Charles de Gaulle |
| Preceded by | Maurice Couve de Murville |
| Succeeded by | Aimé Lepercq |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France 11 January 1907 Paris, France |
| Died | 18 October 1982 (aged 75) Paris, France |
| Political party | Radical (1924–1959) Autonomous Socialist (1959–1960) Unified Socialist (1960–1971) |
| Spouses | Lily Cicurel
(m. 1933; died 1967)Marie-Claire Servan-Schreiber
(m. 1971) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France (French: [pjɛʁ mɑ̃dɛs fʁɑ̃s]; 11 January 1907 – 18 October 1982) was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party, he headed a government supported by a coalition of Gaullists (RPF), moderate socialists (UDSR), Christian democrats (MRP) and liberal-conservatives (CNIP). Pierre-Mendès France is primarily remembered as the French Prime Minister who was in office at the outbreak of the Algerian independence war in 1954. During his tenure, France initiated close military cooperation with Israel, selling arms and aircraft to the young state. Mendès-France laid the groundwork for France’s military nuclear program and the early transfer of nuclear technology to Israel.