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Edgar Faure

1908 - 1988

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Edgar Jean Faure (French: [ɛdɡaʁ ʒɑ̃ fɔʁ] ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Faure is the 8,540th most popular politician (down from 7,782nd in 2019), the 2,455th most popular biography from France (down from 2,289th in 2019) and the 575th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edgar Faure ranks 8,540 out of 19,576Before him are Manuel Oribe, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Nancy Greene Raine, Constantine Phaulkon, Boso, Margrave of Tuscany, and George I of Georgia. After him are Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Pēteris Stučka, Agnes of Dampierre, Mile Budak, and Beatrice of Savoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Edgar Faure ranks 111Before him are Fyodor Okhlopkov, Harold Holt, Sergei Sobolev, Bengt Strömgren, Jean Delannoy, and Bernard Lee. After him are Salo Flohr, Ho Jong-suk, Afet İnan, Robert Rossen, Christa Schroeder, and Eugen Weidmann. Among people deceased in 1988, Edgar Faure ranks 72Before him are Vladimír Menšík, Anna Mahler, Andrija Artuković, Trường Chinh, Giacinto Scelsi, and André Navarra. After him are Khalil al-Wazir, Paolo Stoppa, Erich Probst, Ilona Elek, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, and Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edgar Faure ranks 2,455 out of 6,770Before him are Pierre Lemaitre (1951), François Blondel (1618), Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao (1796), Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331), Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti (1661), and Boso, Margrave of Tuscany (885). After him are Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), Sébastien Japrisot (1931), Thomas, Count of Flanders (1199), Maurice Rouvier (1842), Paul Frère (1917), and Antoine Béchamp (1816).

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