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René Pleven

1901 - 1993

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René Jean Pleven (French: [ʁəne pləvɛ̃]; 15 April 1901 – 13 January 1993) was a notable political figure of the French Resistance and Fourth Republic. An early associate of Jean Monnet then member of the Free French led by Charles de Gaulle, he took a leading role in colonial and financial matters including the Gaullist takeover of French Equatorial Africa in 1940, the creation of the Caisse Centrale de la France Libre in 1941, the Brazzaville Conference in 1944, and the nationalization of the largest French banks in 1945. In 1946, Pleven broke with De Gaulle and helped found the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR), a political party that was meant to be a successor to the wartime Resistance movement. He served as prime minister twice in the early 1950s and is remembered for the Pleven Plan for a European Defence Community, which he proposed in October 1950 in coordination with Monnet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. René Pleven is the 7,771st most popular politician (up from 8,147th in 2019), the 2,228th most popular biography from France (up from 2,407th in 2019) and the 530th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, René Pleven ranks 7,771 out of 19,576. Before him are Jean Duvieusart, Roman Malinovsky, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Birsa Munda, Arturo Frondizi, and Andronikos I of Trebizond. After him are Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Hans Globke, Andrija Artuković, Phaedon Gizikis, Aldona of Lithuania, and Neferhotep I.

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Among people born in 1901, René Pleven ranks 100. Before him are Henri Cochet, Miklós Nyiszli, Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Franciszek Gajowniczek, and Hellmuth Stieff. After him are Gino Cervi, Syama Prasad Mukherjee, Eiji Tsuburaya, Sid Atkinson, Cassandre, and Henry Eyring. Among people deceased in 1993, René Pleven ranks 72. Before him are Sebastiano Baggio, Meliton Kantaria, Hervé Villechaize, Thomas Watson Jr., Jimmy Doolittle, and Pierre Bérégovoy. After him are Myrna Loy, Chris Hani, Desanka Maksimović, Maurice Yaméogo, Ishirō Honda, and Leon Ames.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Pleven ranks 2,228 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona (1487), Jean Paulhan (1884), Nicholas of Verdun (1130), César Baldaccini (1921), John, Duke of Touraine (1398), and Emmanuel Carrère (1957). After him are Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), Fabre d'Églantine (1750), Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1637), Louis François, Prince of Conti (1717), Michel Polnareff (1944), and Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, René Pleven ranks 530. Before him are Paul Poupard (1930), Pierre Bérégovoy (1925), Ermesinde of Carcassonne (972), Pierre Fournier (1906), Maurice Couve de Murville (1907), and Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona (1487). After him are Louis François, Prince of Conti (1717), Princess Isabelle of Orléans (1878), Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien (1641), Chilperic II of Burgundy (450), Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano (1628), and Peter I, Duke of Brittany (1191).

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