Word: gaillard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France's new Premier brought a fresh face into the tired gallery of politicians who have governed France since World War 11. Elected on his 38th birthday, Felix Gaillard became the youngest man to rule France since Napoleon Bonaparte became First Consul in 1799. "Of course," said one of Gaillard's aides last week, "Bonaparte also was very gifted...
...wealthy mining engineer and landowner, Gaillard was a precociously brilliant schoolboy, showed an early devotion to economics. After energetic wartime service in the resistance, he attended various international conferences as a financial expert, was elected to the Assembly (at 27) as a Radical Socialist in 1946, became a junior minister the next year. As Secretary of State to the Premier in 1953, he launched le plan Gaillard, a five-year program for atomic energy development. But he was little known to the French public until last summer, when as Finance Minister in the Bourges-Maunoury government, he courageously devalued...
...French government of Premier Felix Gaillard was threatened with possible overthrow in the French Assembly as a result of the move...
...aide roared off into the Paris night, trying two old (and wrong) addresses before he finally found Gaillard's apartment house on the elegant Avenue Foch. The concierge was annoyed at being waked, totally unimpressed with the information that Gaillard was wanted by the President of the Republic. He summoned a policeman. The aide finally convinced them his business was urgent. Athletic, 37-year-old Felix Gaillard (TIME, Sept. 23), Minister of Finance in the outgoing government of 43-year-old Caretaker Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, hopped out of bed. shaved, dressed and rushed to Coty. Shortly...
Radical Socialist Gaillard, the author of France's recent too-little-and-too-late partial devaluation of the franc, set out to persuade the conservatives and Socialists, who keep rejecting one another's candidates, that he should head a "government to defend the republic." The Socialists balked, but finally at week's end agreed to back him. Barring a last-minute hitch, Gaillard was to be voted into office this week, on his 38th birthday, as the youngest Premier in the history of modern France...