Maurice Faure

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Maurice Faure (1963)

Maurice Faure ([ fɔʀ ]; born January 2, 1922 in Azerat , Dordogne department ; † March 6, 2014 in Cahors , Lot department ) was a French politician . In the 1960s he was chairman of the left-wing liberal Parti radical , after which it was split into a member of the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche (MRG).

Faure was a champion of a united Europe . He was a signatory to the Treaty of Rome , President of the European Movement International and from 1959 to 1981 a member of the European Parliament . From 1983 to 1988 he was a French senator. In addition, he held various ministerial offices - each for a short time. From 1989 to 1998 he was a constitutional judge at the French Conseil constitutionnel .

Life

Faure was the son of a teacher and a headmistress. He attended high school in Périgueux and then studied law, history and geography in Bordeaux and Toulouse . He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. and passed the state examination in history and geography. Faure then became a teacher at both the high school and the Institute for Political Studies in Toulouse. After France's military defeat by the German Empire , Faure joined the French Resistance and took an active part in the resistance.

National politics

After the war, Faure became a member of the Radical Party . From 1947 to 1951 he held positions in ministries of various governments led by the radicals, including as a personal assistant ( chef de cabinet ) to Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury . In 1951, at the age of 29, he became the youngest member of the National Assembly at the time and supported France's accession to the European Coal and Steel Community . From 1953 to 1955 he was general secretary of the party and became an opponent of Pierre Mendès France . Under Foreign Minister Christian Pineau , Faure was State Secretary from February 1956 to May 1958. Faure was minister several times: in May 1958 he was the country's youngest interior minister for four days , then minister for European institutions in the Pflimlin cabinet for two weeks (short government terms were common in the Fourth Republic ).

In the Fifth Republic, Faure was parliamentary group leader of the opposition Entente démocratique and the Rassemblement démocratique from 1960 to 1967 , in which predominantly members of the Parti radical and independents of the center-left sat. From 1961 to 1965 and again from 1969 to 1971 he was chairman of his party. This split in 1973 into a left and a right wing, Faure joined the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche (MRG), which formed the left-wing union under François Mitterrand with socialists and communists . He continued to sit in the National Assembly until 1981.

After Mitterrand was elected President, Faure served from May 22 to June 23, 1981 as Minister of Justice under Pierre Mauroy . From 1983 to 1988 Faure served as senator for the Lot department. From May 12, 1988 to February 22, 1989, he was Minister for Housing under Michel Rocard, with the rank of Ministre d'État (one of the highest ranking ministers).

From 1989 to 1998 Faure was a member of the French Constitutional Court .

European politics

Faure (2nd from right) with Kurt Birrenbach , NATO Secretary General Joseph Luns and EEC Commissioner Sicco Mansholt (1963)

Maurice Faure played a key role in the early stages of the European community. From 1952 he was a member of the Joint Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (Montanunion). In 1956 he headed the French delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference for the Common Market and Euratom in Brussels. As State Secretary under Foreign Minister Christian Pineau , Faure signed the Treaty of Rome for France in 1957 .

From 1959 to 1967 and again from 1973 he was a French delegate in the then indirectly elected European Parliament . From 1961 to 1968 he was President of the European Movement International . After the first direct election of the European Parliament in 1979 , he was a member of it until 1981. He was a member of the Socialist Group . In 2007 he was appointed President of the Honorary Committee for the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.

Local and regional policy

Maurice Faure (center) with Dominique Orliac and Marc Lecuru on the day of remembrance for the armistice, November 11, 2007 in Cahors

From 1953 to 1965 Faure was mayor of the small community of Prayssac in the Lot department in southern France . From 1965 to 1990 he was mayor of the city of Cahors . From 1958 to 1994 he was a member of the General Council of the Lot department, from 1970 to 1994 he was its president. From 1964 to 1970 he headed the Midi-Pyrénées Regional Economic Development Commission . From 1974 to 1978 he was the first Vice-President of the Midi-Pyrénées Regional Council.

Honors

literature

  • Christian Delacampagne: D'une République à l'autre. Entretiens sur l'histoire et la politique. Plon, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-259-18985-7 (conversations with Faure).
  • Alexandre Marciel: Maurice Faure: l'étonnant destin politique. Publi fusion, Cahors 1997, ISBN 2-907265-43-1 .
  • Maurice Faure , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 33/1988 of August 8, 1988, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Luc Cédelle: Mort de l'ancien ministre, Maurice Faure, à 92 ans. lemonde.fr, March 6, 2014, accessed March 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Maurice Faure , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 33/1988 of August 8, 1988, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on May 31, 2014 ( beginning of article freely available)
  3. ↑ Armin Mohler: "Monsieur Europe." zeit.de, article from April 4, 1957, accessed on March 6, 2014.
  4. ^ Alan Cowell, Nicholas Kulish: Nobel Committee Gives Peace Prize to European Union. nytimes.com, October 12, 2012, accessed March 5, 2014.
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.59 MB)
  6. ↑ Laurent Benayoun: Cahors. Maurice Faure, l'Empereur devient Commandeur. ladepeche.fr, September 28, 2013, accessed March 5, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Faure, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faure, Maurice Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Azerat , Dordogne department
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2014
Place of death Cahors , Lot department