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Missing image Faure.jpg Edgar Faure, French statesman Edgar Faure (August 18, 1908 - March 30, 1988) was a French statesman. Faure was born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. He trained as a lawyer in Paris and became a member of the Bar at 27, the youngest lawyer in France to do so at the time. While living in Paris, he became active in politics, and joined the Radical Party. During the German occupation of World War II, he joined the Resistance, and in 1942 fled to Charles de Gaulle’s headquarters in Algiers, where de Gaulle made him head of the Provisional Government's legislative department. At the end of the war he served as French counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. In 1946, he was elected to parlement as a Radical party member. While the popularity of his Radical party declined to less than 10 per cent of the total vote, none of the other parties were able to gain a clear majority. As such, early on, Faure’s party often played a disproportionately important role in the formation of French governments. Faure was a leader of the more conservative wing of the party, opposing the party's left under Pierre Mendès-France. Faure's views changed with time and he became a supporter of de Gaulle’s party who sent him on an unofficial mission to the People's Republic of China in 1963. He was a member of the National Assembly for the Jura Department from 1946 to 1958 and for the Doubs Department from 1967 to 1980 when he again became Senator. A radical during the Fourth Republic, he ended as a Gaullist during the Fifth Republic. He was a Senator from 1959 to 1967 for the Jura and again in 1980 for the Doubs. On the regional, departemental and local levels, Edgar FAURE was mayor of Port-Lesney (Jura) from 1947 to 1971 et from 1983 to 1988 and mayor of Pontarlier from 1971 to 1977, president of the General Council of the Jura Department from 1949 to 1967, then member of the General Council of the Doubs Department from 1967 to 1979, president of the regional council of the Franche-Comté province from 1974 to 1981 et from 1982 to 1988. During his career, Edgar Faure served as:
In 1978 he became a Member of the Académie française. He has published the following books:
Edgar Faure was interred in Cimetière de Passy, Paris, France. Faure's First Ministry, 20 January - 8 March 1952
Faure's Second Ministry, 23 February 1955 - 1 February 1956
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