biography
| name: |
Mollet, Guy (Alcide)
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pronunciation:
[molay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1905–75)
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| biography:
| French politician and prime minister (1956–7), born in Flers-de-l'Orne, NW France. An English teacher, he was a member of the resistance in World War 2. In 1946 he became Mayor of Arras, an MP, secretary-general of the Socialist Party, and a cabinet minister in the Léon Blum government. In 1949 he became a delegate to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, and its president in 1955. He became prime minister in February 1956, survived the international crisis over the Anglo-French intervention in Suez, but fell from office in May 1957 after staying in power longer than any French premier since the war. In 1959 he was elected a senator of the French Community. |
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