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Maurice Couve de Murville
Opening NATO conferentie Couve de Murville en Luns, Bestanddeelnr 916-4274 (cropped).jpg
Prime Minister of France
In office
10 July 1968 – 20 June 1969
President Charles de Gaulle
Alain Poher (Acting)
Preceded by Georges Pompidou
Succeeded by Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Minister of Economy and Finance
In office
31 May 1968 – 10 July 1968
Prime Minister Georges Pompidou
Preceded by Michel Debré
Succeeded by François-Xavier Ortoli
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
1 June 1958 – 30 May 1968
Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle
Michel Debré
Georges Pompidou
Preceded by René Pleven
Succeeded by Michel Debré
Senator for Paris
In office
28 September 1986 – 1 October 1995
Member of the National Assembly
for Paris 6th constituency
In office
11 March 1973 – 1 April 1986
Preceded by Raymond Bousquet
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
In office
23 June 1968 – 10 August 1968
Preceded by Raymond Bousquet
Succeeded by Raymond Bousquet
Personal details
Born
Maurice Couve

(1907-01-24)24 January 1907
Reims, France
Died 24 December 1999(1999-12-24) (aged 92)
Paris, France
Political party UDR
Spouse Jacqueline Schweisguth
Children Juliette
Dorothée
Béatrice
Occupation Military
Diplomat
Civil Servant
Politician
Maurice Couve de Murville - Ben Gurion 1960
Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville receiving David Ben-Gurion at Quai d'Orsay, June 1960

Jacques-Maurice Couve de Murville (French: [mɔʁis kuv də myʁvil, moʁ-]; 24 January 1907 – 24 December 1999) was a French diplomat and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle. As foreign minister he played the leading role in the critical Franco-German treaty of cooperation in 1963, he laid the foundation for the Paris-Bonn axis that was central in building a united Europe.

Life

He was born Maurice Couve (his father acquired the name de Murville in 1925) in Reims. Maurice Couve de Murville, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (1929–2007), was his cousin.

Couve de Murville joined the corps of finance inspectors in 1930, and in 1940 became Director of External Finances of the Vichy régime, in which capacity he sat at the armistice council of Wiesbaden. In March 1943, after the American landing in North Africa, he was one of the few senior officials of Vichy to join the Free French. He left for Algiers, via Spain, where he joined General Henri Giraud. On 7 June 1943, he was named commissioner of finance of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN). A few months later, he joined General Charles de Gaulle. In February 1945, he became a member of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF) with the rank of ambassador attached to the Italian government.

After the war, he occupied several posts as French Ambassador, in Cairo (1950 to 1954), at NATO (1954), in Washington (1955 to 1956) and in Bonn (1956 to 1958). When General de Gaulle returned to power in 1958, he became Foreign Minister, a post he retained for ten years until the reshuffle that followed the events of May 1968 where he replaced Finance minister Michel Debré, keeping this post only a short time: very soon after the elections, he became a transitional Prime Minister, replacing Georges Pompidou. The following year he was succeeded by Jacques Chaban-Delmas.

Couve de Murville continued his political career first as a UDR deputy, then RPR deputy for Paris until 1986, then as a senator until 1995. He died in Paris at the age of 92 from natural causes.

Published works

  • Une politique étrangère, 1958–1969 (1971). ISBN unknown
  • Le Monde en face (1989). ISBN: 2-259-02222-7

Political career

Governmental functions

Prime minister : 1968–1969

Minister of Foreign Affairs : 1958–1968

Minister of Economy and Finance : May–July 1968

Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly 1973–1981.

Electoral mandates

Member of the National Assembly of France for Paris : June 1968 (He left his seat when he became a minister) / 1973–1986

Senator of Paris : 1986–1995

Couve de Murville's Government

The cabinet from 10 July 1968 – 20 June 1969

  • Maurice Couve de Murville – Prime Minister
  • Michel Debré – Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Pierre Messmer – Minister of Armies
  • Raymond Marcellin – Minister of the Interior, Public Health, and Population
  • François-Xavier Ortoli – Minister of Economy and Finance
  • André Bettencourt – Minister of Industry
  • Joseph Fontanet – Minister of Labour, Employment, and Population
  • René Capitant – Minister of Justice
  • Edgar Faure – Minister of National Education
  • Henri Duvillard – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
  • André Malraux – Minister of Cultural Affairs
  • Robert Boulin – Minister of Agriculture
  • Albin Chalandon – Minister of Equipment and Housing
  • Jean Chamant – Minister of Transport
  • Roger Frey – Minister of Relations with Parliament
  • Yves Guéna – Minister of Posts and Telecommunications
  • Maurice Schumann – Minister of Social Affairs

On 28 April 1969 – Jean-Marcel Jeanneney succeeded Capitant as interim Minister of Justice.

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