Jean foyer

Jean Foyer (born April 27, 1921 in Contigné , Maine-et-Loire department , † October 4, 2008 in Paris ) was a French politician .

Life

After attending school, he studied law and was later appointed professor of civil law .

Foyer was first elected a member of the National Assembly on March 7, 1959 and initially represented the Maine-et-Loire department for the Union pour la Nouvelle République (UNR) until January 6, 1963 .

On April 16, 1962, Foyer was appointed Minister of Justice in his government by Prime Minister Georges Pompidou and held this post until April 6, 1967.

Before that, he was again a member of the National Assembly on March 5, 1967, where he again represented the Maine-et-Loire department for the UNR until May 14, 1988, and then after June 1968 for the Union pour la défense de la République or the Union des Démocrates pour la République (UDR) and from 1976 for the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR).

On July 6, 1972, Prime Minister Pierre Messmer appointed him Minister of Public Health in his cabinet, to which he was a member until he was replaced by Michel Poniatowski on April 6, 1973.

Foyer later became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques .

Fonts

Foyer published specialist legal books in the field of civil law as well as books on general political and historical topics such as:

with Gérard Cornu: Procédure civile. Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1958.
Daumier au Palais de Justice. La Colombe, Paris 1958.
Titre et armes du prince Louis de Bourbon aîné des Capétiens. Diffusion-Université-Culture, Paris 1990.
The député dans la société française. Economica, Paris 1991.
La Ve République. Flammarion, Paris 1995.
Histoire de la justice. Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1996.
with Michel Godet, Jean-Pierre Thiollet , Françoise Thom: La Pensée unique. Le vrai procès. Economica — Jean-Marc Chardon & Denis Lensel Ed., 1998.
La papauté au XXe siècle. Singer-Polignac Foundation. Cerf, Paris 1999.
France, qu'ont-ils fait de ta liberté? François-Xavier de Guibert, Paris 1999.
with Catherine Puigelier; Le nouveau Code de procédure civile. Economica, Paris 2006.
with Sabine Jansen: Sur les chemins du droit avec le Général . Mémoires de ma vie politique - 1944–1988. Fayard, Paris 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME	Foyer, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French politician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Contigné , Maine-et-Loire
DATE OF DEATH	October 4, 2008
Place of death	Paris