Edgar Faure

Edgar Jean Faure (; 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.

Life Faure was born in Béziers, Hérault, to a French Army doctor. He was nearsighted yet a brilliant student since his youth, earning a baccalauréat at 15, as well as a law degree at 19 in Paris.

In 1946, he was elected to the French Parliament as a Radical.

In his 1997 book, The Zubial, author Alexandre Jardin recounts how Faure would spend time with his father, Pascal Jardin.

Political career Governmental functions President of the Council (Prime Minister): January–February 1952 / February–December 1955 Secretary of State for Finance: 1949–1950 Minister of the Budget: 1950–1951 Minister of Justice: 1951–1952 Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs: 1953–1955 Minister of Foreign Affairs: January–February 1955 Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Planning: May–June 1958 Minister of Agriculture: 1966–1968 Minister of National Education: 1968–1969 Minister of State, Minister of Social Affairs: 1972–1973

Electoral mandates President of the National Assembly of France: 1973–1978 Member of the National Assembly of France for Doubs: Elected in 1967, 1968, but remains a cabinet member / 1973–1980 Member of the National Assembly of France for Jura: 1946–1958 Senator for Jura: 1959–1966 (became a cabinet member in 1966) Senator for Doubs: 1980–1988 (died in 1988) President of the Regional Council of Franche-Comté: 1974–1981 / 1982–1988 (died in 1988) Mayor of Port-Lesney: 1947–1970 / 1983–1988 (died in 1988) Mayor of Pontarlier: 1971–1977 President of the General Council of Jura: 1949–1967 General councillor of Jura: 1967–1979

Global policy He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution. As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt a Constitution for the Federation of Earth.