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Admitted to the bar at 23, he was the youngest lawyer in France. A student-days fight with royalists gave Mendès-France 1) a permanently splayed nose and 2) an urge to go into politics. Only 25, but wearing a mustache to appear older, he was elected a Deputy in 1932-the youngest in the Chamber of Deputies...
Upbringing: The name Mendès-France, according to some who bear it, goes back to about 1300 when their forebears were driven from Portugal because they were Jews. Those who fled to France added their new homeland's name. The Premier is frequently called only Mendes (pronounced Mahn-dess). Pierre's parents were well-to-do and he received good schooling...
Gone from government was Foreign Minister Bidault; Mendès kept the Foreign Ministry for himself. The new Premier-Foreign Minister said he might personally go to Geneva to learn what the price of peace in Indo-China would...
Confirmed this week as France's 20th Premier since World War II: Pierre Mendès-France, 47. "I hate politics, I do not indulge in politics, I am not a politician," he says, but his unorthodox approach has proved him to be the most consummate political strategist in France today...
...support for stringent anti-inflation measures. Has since turned down all Cabinet offers because he disapproved of the long succession of patchwork coalitions designed to do as little as possible to offend as few as possible of France's variegated factions. "You cannot cauterize a wooden leg," said Mendès-France contemptuously...