biography
pronunciation:
[kohtee]
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| lived:
| (1882–1962)
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| biography:
| French statesman, the last president of the French Fourth Republic (1953–9), born in Le Havre, NW France. A barrister, he was elected a Left Republican deputy in 1923, entered the Senate in 1935, and was minister of reconstruction in 1947. After the constitutional crisis precipitated by the generals in Algeria in May 1958, he assisted the return to power of General de Gaulle and the birth of the Fifth Republic in 1958. |
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