Word: schweisguth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back to Paris. In 1932 Couve married Jacqueline Schweisguth, the slim, brunette daughter of an Alsatian Protestant family related to the oil-rich Schlimbergers of Texas. Jacqueline's father was also an inspector of finances, but Couve protests it was "just a coincidence." Couve rose rapidly to become head of the external finance division of his ministry, but in 1943 he fled Vichy France and eventually joined De Gaulle in Algeria, where he became, in effect, the finance minister of the Free French. After serving on the Allied Consultative Council for Italy with Britian's Harold Macmillan...
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