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Félix Gaillard | |
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| Prime Minister of France | |
| In office 6 November 1957 – 14 May 1958 | |
| President | René Coty |
| Preceded by | Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Pflimlin |
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| Born | (1919-11-05)5 November 1919 Paris, France |
| Died | 10 July 1970(1970-07-10) (aged 50) nearJersey |
| Political party | Radical |
Félix Gaillard d'Aimé (French:[feliksɡajaʁ]; 5 November 1919 – 10 July 1970) was a FrenchRadical politician who served asPrime Minister under theFourth Republic from 1957 to 1958. He was the youngest head of a French government sinceNapoleon.[1]
A senior civil servant in the Inland Revenue Service, Gaillard joined theResistance and served on its Finance committee. As a member of theRadical Party, he was elected deputy ofCharentedépartement in 1946. During the Fourth Republic, he held a number of governmental offices, notably as Minister of Economy and Finance in 1957.
He became Prime Minister in 1957, but, not unusually for theFrench Fourth Republic; his term of office lasted only a few months. Gaillard was defeated in a vote of no confidence by theFrench National Assembly, in March 1958, after the bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, a Tunisian village.
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 theFifth Republic.
Gaillard was last seen alive on 9 July 1970, when he and three passengers boarded his yacht, theMarie Grillon and departed the island ofJersey to return to the French mainland after a brief stay. The next day, bits of the wreckage of the yacht were found at theMinquiers reefs, along with the bodies of the two passengers.[2] Gaillard's body was found, along with that of another passenger, floating in theEnglish Channel on 12 July.[3]
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| Preceded by | Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs 1957 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Prime Minister of France 1957–1958 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | President of the Radical Party 1958–1961 | Succeeded by |
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