Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury

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Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury (L) meeting Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol during a visit to Israel in 1958

Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury (French pronunciation: [moʁis buʁʒɛs monuʁi]; 19 August 1914, Luisant, Eure-et-Loir – 10 February 1993, Paris) was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957.

He is famous, especially, for fulfilling a prominent ministerial role in the government during the Suez Crisis.^{[citation needed]}

Prime minister

He became Prime Minister in June 1957.

While he was Prime Minister, the French Government achieved Parliamentary ratification of the Treaty of Rome.

He was succeeded as Prime Minister in November 1957 by Félix Gaillard.

Controversy

As minister of Interior, he nominated the controversial Maurice Papon at the head of the Prefecture of Police in 1958, functions which he kept during the 1961 Paris massacre.

Death

He died in Paris in 1993.^{[citation needed]}

Bourgès-Maunoury's Ministry, 13 June – 6 November 1957

• Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – President of the Council
• Christian Pineau – Minister of Foreign Affairs
• André Morice – Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces
• Jean Gilbert-Jules – Minister of the Interior
• Félix Gaillard – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
• Édouard Corniglion-Molinier – Minister of Justice
• René Billères – Minister of National Education, Youth, and Sports
• André Dulin – Minister of Veterans and War Victims
• Gérard Jaquet – Minister of Overseas France
• Édouard Bonnefous – Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism
• Albert Gazier – Minister of Social Affairs
• Max Lejeune – Minister of Sahara
• Félix Houphouët-Boigny – Minister of State

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