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Félix Gaillard
Prime Minister of France
In office
6 November 1957 – 14 May 1958
PresidentRené Coty
Preceded byMaurice Bourgès-Maunoury
Succeeded byPierre Pflimlin
Personal details
Born(1919-11-05)5 November 1919
Paris, France
Died10 July 1970(1970-07-10) (aged 50)
near Jersey
Political partyRadical

Félix Gaillard d'Aimé (French: [feliks ɡajaʁ]; 5 November 1919 – 10 July 1970) was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister under the Fourth Republic from 1957 to 1958. He was the youngest head of a French government since Napoleon.

Career

A senior civil servant in the Inland Revenue Service, Gaillard joined the Resistance and served on its Finance committee. As a member of the Radical Party, he was elected deputy of Charente département in 1946. During the Fourth Republic, he held a number of governmental offices, notably as Minister of Economy and Finance in 1957.

Prime minister

He became Prime Minister in 1957, but, not unusually for the French Fourth Republic; his term of office lasted only a few months. Gaillard was defeated in a vote of no confidence by the French National Assembly, in March 1958, after the bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, a Tunisian village.

Later political career

President of the Radical Party from 1958 to 1961, he advocated an alliance of the center-left and the center-right parties. He represented a generation of young politicians whose careers were blighted by the advent of the Fifth Republic.

Death

Gaillard was last seen alive on 9 July 1970, when he and three passengers boarded his yacht, the Marie Grillon and departed the island of Jersey to return to the French mainland after a brief stay. The next day, bits of the wreckage of the yacht were found at the Minquiers reefs, along with the bodies of the two passengers. Gaillard's body was found, along with that of another passenger, floating in the English Channel on 12 July.

Gaillard's Ministry, 6 November 1957 – 14 May 1958

Political offices
Preceded byPaul Ramadier Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
1957 		Succeeded byPierre Pflimlin
Preceded byMaurice Bourgès-Maunoury Prime Minister of France
1957–1958 		Succeeded byPierre Pflimlin
Party political offices
Preceded byÉdouard Daladier President of the Radical Party
1958–1961 		Succeeded byMaurice Faure

References

  1. "Biography in French on the Assemblée Nationale Web Site". Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2008.
  2. "Ex-French Premier Missing in Channel". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 11 July 1970. p. 2. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  3. "Yacht Blast Yields Ex-Premier's Body". Atlanta Constitution. 11 July 1970. p. 2.
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