Edgar Faure
French politician
Died when: 79 years 225 days (955 months)Star Sign: Leo
Edgar Jean Faure (French: [ɛdɡaʁ foʁ]; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.
Prior to his election to the National Assembly for Jura under the Fourth Republic in 1946, he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) in Algiers (1943–1944).
A Radical, Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer.In 1978, he was elected to the Académie Française.
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