Word: jacquinot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build rental housing, so that France will no longer be the only major nation that has made no real dent in its postwar housing shortage. ¶ Minister of Justice Michel Debré was charged with the task of reorganizing France's hodgepodge judicial structure. ¶ Ministers Louis Jacquinot, Jean Berthoin and André Malraux were ordered to devise a scheme for financing long-range scientific research. ¶ Minister of State Guy Mollet was assigned to head a task force to simplify the structure of French municipal government...
Minister of State: Louis Jacquinot, 59, an Independent (conservative), former Minister of the Navy. Angry critic of the parliamentary "gravediggers of our Empire," whom he blamed for the loss of Indo-China, Tunisia. Morocco, Jacquinot also charged that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were "in league" to rob France of North Africa. A longtime bachelor, he married a wealthy widow five years ago at the time of his unsuccessful bid to become President of France...