Jean Charbonnel

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Jean Charbonnel (born April 22, 1927 in La Fère , Département Aisne , † February 20, 2014 in Paris ) was a French politician of the Union pour la Nouvelle République (UNR) and later the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), member of the National Assembly , State Secretary for Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Pompidou III Cabinet and between 1972 and 1974 Minister for Industrial and Scientific Development in the Messmer I and Messmer II Cabinets .

Life

Degree, member of parliament and state secretary

Charbonnel completed his school education at the renowned Lycée Henri IV and Lycée Louis-le-Grand in the Latin Quarter of Paris and then began studying history at the Sorbonne , the University of Paris , and at the École normal supérieure (ENS Paris), which he graduated with the Agrégé d'histoire . He then studied at the École nationale d'administration (ENA) between 1954 and 1956 and became an auditor at the Court of Auditors ( Cour des Comptes ) . In 1957 he was also a lecturer in political science at the University of Paris and was later from July 1959 to April 1962 technical advisor to Minister of Health and Justice Bernard Chenot , before he was then again auditor at the Court of Auditors.

On November 25, 1962 Charbonnel was as followers of from Charles de Gaulle founded Gaullism for the Union for the New Republic (UNR) - Union démocratique du travail (UDT) for the first time a member of the National Assembly and represented in this until 8 February 1966, the department Corrèze . During this time he was a member of the Committee on Finance, General Economics and Planning (Commission des finances, de l'économie générale et du plan) . In 1964 he was also elected a member of the General Council of the Corrèze department, in which he represented the then canton de Brive-la-Gaillarde-Nord until 1982.

On January 8, 1966, Charbonnel took over his first government office, and served in the third Pompidou cabinet until April 1, 1967 as State Secretary for Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Secrétaire d'Etat aux Affaires étrangères, chargé de la Coopération) . In addition, he was elected Mayor of Brive-la-Gaillarde on October 9, 1966 as the successor to Henri Chapelle of the RRRS and held this office until his replacement by Bernard Murat of the UMP until June 26, 1995. He was des Furthermore, from May 1967 to 1968, together with Robert Poujade , André Fanton , Jean Taittinger and René Tomasini, he was a member of the collective General Secretariat of the UNR-UDT and then between 1968 and 1971 Vice-Secretary General of the Union des Démocrates pour la République (UDR) and thus Deputy by the now General Secretary Robert Poujade.

Minister and re-election to the National Assembly

In the election of June 23, 1968 Charbonnel was re-elected for the UDR as a member of the National Assembly, this time he was a member until August 6, 1972. He re-became a member of the Finance, General Economics and Planning Committee and served as its chairman between January 27, 1971 and July 6, 1972. Thereupon, on July 6, 1972, he took over the office of Minister for Industrial and Scientific Development (Ministre du développement industriel et scientifique) in the first Messmer cabinet , which he also held from April 5, 1973 to February 27, 1974 in the subsequent second Messmer cabinet held. In the meantime, he was re-elected to the National Assembly for the UDR in the Corrèze department on March 11, 1973, but renounced the mandate on May 5, 1973 after he had re-entered government. In 1982 he was re-elected as a member of the General Council of the Corrèze department and represented the new canton of Brive-la-Gaillarde-Center there until 1988 .

On March 16, 1986 Charbonnel was again a member of the National Assembly for the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), which he belonged as a representative of the Corrèze department this time until April 1, 1993. During this eighth legislative period he was initially briefly again a member of the Committee for Finance, General Economics and Planning, but switched to the Committee for Production and Trade (Commission de la production et des échanges) on May 29, 1986 and was a member of it on April 3, 1990. On April 3, 1990, he resigned from the RPR group and remained a non-attached member of parliament. Most recently, he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee (Commission des affaires étrangères) from April 3, 1990 to April 1, 1993 .

Charbonnel was one of the people who doubted the suicide of former minister Robert Boulin, who was found dead on October 30, 1979 in the forest of Rambouillet , and assumed that Boulins was murdered. He explained this to various newspapers.

Publications

In addition to his political activities, Charbonnel also wrote several books that dealt with historical and political topics. In particular, he published several books on Gaullism and was awarded the literary prize of the Pierre-Lafue Foundation in 1988 for his book Edmond Michelet , published in 1987, on the Gaullist Minister of Justice Edmond Michelet . His publications include:

  • L'Aventure de la fidélité , Paris, Le Seuil, 1973.
  • Radioscopie des oppositions , Paris, Plon, 1973.
  • Comment peut-on être opposant? , Paris, Robert Laffont, 1983.
  • Edmond Michelet , Paris, Beauchesne, 1987.
  • De Gaulle au Présent , Paris, Flammarion, 1990.
  • À la gauche du Général , Paris, Plon, 1998.
  • Le Gaullisme en questions , Paris, PUF, 2002.
  • Les Légitimistes de Chateaubriand à De Gaulle , Paris, La Table Ronde, 2006.
  • Pour l'honneur du Gaullisme, contre-enquête sur un héritage , co-author Laurent de Boissieu , Riveneuve, 2011, ISBN 978-2360-130788 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Troisième Gouvernement Georges Pompidou
  2. ^ Premier Gouvernement Pierre Messmer
  3. ^ Deuxième Gouvernement Pierre Messmer
  4. ↑ Boulin affair: “J'ai mis les deux noms dans un coffre” . In: Sud Ouest of February 12, 2011
  5. ^ Affaire Boulin: L'ancien ministre Jean Charbonnel prêt à donner des noms . In: 20 minutes from February 1, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Charbonnel, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH La Fère , Aisne department
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 2014
Place of death Paris