Lucien Paye

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Lucien Paye (* 28. June 1907 in Vernoil-le-Fourrier , department of Maine-et-Loire ; † 25. April 1972 in Paris ) was a French civil servant, politician and diplomat , who from 1961 to 1962 Minister of National Education , of 1962 to 1964 was ambassador to Senegal and between 1964 and 1969 first French ambassador to the People's Republic of China . Most recently he was President of the Court of Auditors ( Cour des Comptes ) from 1970 until his death in 1972 .

Life

Degree and civil servant of the education administration

Paye graduated after school to study at the d'Ulm Rue in the Latin Quarter nearby Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), which he 1927 with the Agrégation de lettres completed. He then worked in the school administration and was initially involved in secondary and higher education for people from the French part of the Maghreb such as Morocco .

On October 16, 1948, Paye succeeded Georges Gaston as General Director for Education (Directeur de l'Instruction publique) at the General Resident of the Protectorate in Tunisia . He was the last head of the French education administration before the independence of Tunisia on March 20, 1956. Before that, Jallouli Farès had already taken over the office of Minister of Education in the government of Prime Minister Tahar ben Ammar on September 17, 1955 . Subsequently, Paye was political director of the Minister- Resident in Algeria , Robert Lacoste , and took part in various talks based on his knowledge in accordance with the French doctrine on counterinsurgency of the Algerian war.

In 1957 he received his doctorate at the University of Paris with a dissertation on the subject of Enseignement et société musulmane: introduction et évolution de l'enseignement modern au Maroc . On February 24, 1957, he became the founding rector of the University of Dakar, which emerged from the Medical School of French West Africa (École de médecine de l'AOF) and held this position until he was replaced by Claude Franck in 1960.

Minister of Education and Ambassador

On February 20, 1961, Paye was appointed Minister for National Education in his government by Prime Minister Michel Debré as successor to Pierre Guillaumat and held this office until the end of Debre's term on April 14, 1962. During his tenure as Minister of Education, he founded the 1961 Concours national de la résistance et de la déportation (CNRD), a competition among young people to keep alive the memory of the merits of the resistance movement during the German occupation of France in World War II . On December 2, 1961, he laid the foundation stone for the expansion of the University of Grenoble on an area of ​​186 hectares between Saint-Martin-d'Hères and Gières . He also worked as Minister of Education for the work of the Dakar University.

After leaving the government, he was appointed by decree of September 19, 1962 to succeed Claude Hettier de Boislambert as ambassador to Senegal. He was succeeded in June 1964 by Jean Vyau de Lagarde.

In April 1964 Paye became the first ambassador to the People's Republic of China and held this position until 1969, when he was replaced by Étienne Manac'h . During this time he was actively involved in the field of French-Chinese cultural relations. On the other hand, the Cultural Revolution of 1966 began during his term of office .

President of the Court of Auditors

After his death, the student residence Résidence Lucien Paye of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris was named in honor of Paye

He was also president from 1968 to 1970 for the reform of the statutes of the public broadcaster ORTF ( Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française ) . Most recently, Paye succeeded André d'Estresse de Lanzac as First President of the Court of Auditors (Cour des Comptes) by decree of January 19, 1970 and held this position until his death in 1972. His successor was Désiré Arnaud . As President of the Court of Auditors, he promoted Philippe Séguin , who was later Minister for Social Affairs and Employment between 1986 and 1988 and President of the Court of Auditors from 2004 until his death in 2011.

For his long-standing commitment to higher education and in favor of foreign students, he was in honor after his death in 1973, the 1951, designed by architect Albert Laprade built student residence Résidence Lucien Paye of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris named. The facade of this building was designed by the sculptor Anna Quinquaud . In addition, the École Lucien Paye in Saint-Nolff and the Parise Théâtre Lucien Paye were named after him.

His son is the diplomat Jean-Claude Paye , who was between 1984 and 1994 Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Publications

  • L'Éducation de la jeunesse marocaine: réflexions et principes d'action , 1940.
  • Tunisie. Center de recherches et d'études pédagogiques. L'Arabe dialectal enseigné aux jeunes élèves des écoles françaises , 1950.
  • Documents sur les résultats de l'enseignement en langue française dans les établissements scolaires de Tunisie , 1957.
  • Enseignement et société musulmane: introduction et évolution de l'enseignement moderne au Maroc , dissertation, University of Paris, 1957, reprinted in 1992.
  • Deux expériences de formation des cadres et de perfectionnement des travailleurs et employés africains , 1959.
  • Mission de l'enseignement supérieur en Afrique , 1960.
  • Texts de l'allocution aux obsèques du doyen J. Peres , 1962.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pierre Vermeren: La formation des élites marocaines: Des nationalistes aux islamistes, 1920-2000 , 2010, ISBN 2-70715-544-6 , pp. 30, 34, 36.
  2. ↑ Pierre Vermeren, La formation des élites marocaines: Des nationalistes aux islamistes, 1920-2000 , 2010, ISBN 2-70715-544-6 , pp. 166 f., 176, 252.
  3. ↑ Grégor Mathias: Galula in Algeria: Counterinsurgency Practice versus Theory , 2011, ISBN 0-31339-576-4 , p. 56.
  4. ↑ José-Alain Fralon: Jacques Chevallier, l'homme qui voulait empêcher la guerre d'Algérie , 2012, ISBN 2-21367-044-7
  5. ↑ David Galula: Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958 , edition 2002, ISBN 0-83304-108-8 .
  6. ↑ Aïssa Kadri (editor): Parcours d'intellectuels maghrébins: scolarité, formation, socialization et positionnements , 1999, ISBN 2-86537-997-3 , p. 43 ff.
  7. ^ A b Etienne Le Roy: Un passeur entre les mondes: le livre des anthropologues du droit, disciples et Amis du Recteur Michel Alliot , 2000, ISBN 2-85944-395-9 , p. 69 f.
  8. ^ Debré cabinet
  9. ↑ Decree of September 19, 1962 on the Légifrance website
  10. ↑ Before 1964, the diplomatic mission of France in the People's Republic of China was carried out by a chargé d'affaires.
  11. ↑ Pierre-Jean Rémy: La Chine: Journal de Pékin (1963-2008) , 2008, ISBN 2-73819-275-0 , p. 94 ff.
  12. ^ Edward E. Rice: Mao's Way , 1974, ISBN 0-52002-623-3 , p. 209.
  13. ^ Jeremi Suri: Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente , 2009, ISBN 0-67404-416-9 , pp. 290 ff.
  14. ↑ Decree of January 19, 1970 on the Légifrance website
  15. ↑ List of Presidents of the Cour des Comptes ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ccomptes.fr
  16. ↑ Michel Taubmann: Le fils perdu de la République 2015, ISBN 2-35417-349-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Paye, Lucien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vernoil-le-Fourrier , Maine-et-Loire department
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1972
Place of death Paris