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Pierre Mendes France
Born in 1907, he was a French radical-socialist
politician, in his youth he fought within the League of Republican and
Socialist University Action.
He was elected deputy of Eure in 1932 and became mayor
of Louviers in 1935, and supported the Popular Front.
During the Second World War, Pierre Mendès France, who
joined London, fought in the Free French Air Force and was a member of the
French Committee for National Liberation.
In 1944, de Gaulle appointed him Minister of the
Economy, but Pierre Mendès France resigned in April 1945 when the general
refused to follow his austerity policy.
From 1946 to 1951, he moved away from politics and he
worked for the International Monetary Fund of which he was elected president in
1948.
He was President of the Council from 1954 to 1955 and
he signed the Geneva Agreements ending the Indochina War.
He then militated in the United Socialist Party and
participated in the recomposition of the socialist left.
Pierre Mendès France retains the image of a model
politician who marked the history of the IVth Republic, he died in 1982.
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